Solon, the Horoi and the Hektemoroi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23403450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | De Ste Croix (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 109-128 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Athenian democratic origins (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255177.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2478936516 |
| ISBN | 9780199255177 |
| Language | EN |
By 1962, Antony Andrewes had developed a new theory of the famous Seisachtheia or ‘shaking off of burdens’ of Solon: according to Andrewes, what Aristotle saw as a cancellation of debts was the abolition of a traditional and long-standing state of dependency, that of the Hektemoroi or ‘sixth-part payers’. In 1962, Ste. Croix was invited by Andrewes to comment on a preliminary draft and he sent a long letter in reply; in 1968 Andrewes again consulted Ste. Croix and received a further long response. Edited extracts from the 1962 letter, followed by that of 1968 are presented.
Debt · Dependency (UML) · Economics · Artificial Intelligence · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Finance · Historical and Literary Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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