The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . subject citieswould not keep one hundred ships manned and equipped for ayear, to say nothing of building them. When we rememberthe standing navy in the Aegean and the great armaments thatAthens sent repeatedly against Persia, it is plain that she con-tinued to bear her full share of the imperial burden. She kepther empire because she did not rob her dependencies — asmost empires had done, and were to do for two thousandyears longer. B. Government 208. Steps in Development. — Seventy years had passed be-tween the reforms of Clisthenes and t
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . subject citieswould not keep one hundred ships manned and equipped for ayear, to say nothing of building them. When we rememberthe standing navy in the Aegean and the great armaments thatAthens sent repeatedly against Persia, it is plain that she con-tinued to bear her full share of the imperial burden. She kepther empire because she did not rob her dependencies — asmost empires had done, and were to do for two thousandyears longer. B. Government 208. Steps in Development. — Seventy years had passed be-tween the reforms of Clisthenes and the truce with main steps of progress in government were five. The office of General had grown greatly in Assembly had extended its authority to all matters olgovernment, in practice as well as in courts (§ 211, below) had gained importance. 202 THE GREEKS —ATHENIAN LEADERSHIP [§208 Tlie poorest citizens (§ 152) had been made eligible tooffice. Tlie state had begun to pay its citizens for public Map of Athens, with some structures of the Roman period.—The term Stoa, which appears so often in this map, means porch or porticoes were inclosed by columns, and their fronts along theAgora formed a succession of colonnades. Only a few of the famous build-ings can be shown in a map like this. The Agora was the great publicsquare, or open market place, surrounded by shops and porticoes. It wasthe busiest spot in Athens, the center of the commercial and social life ofthe city, where men met their friends for business or for pleasure. The constitution was not made over new at any one momentwithin this period, as it had been earlier, at the time of Solonand of Clisthenes. Indeed, the change was more in the spiritof the people than in the written law. The first three stepsmentioned (the increased power of the Generals and of the As- § 210] GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS, HER EMPIRE 203 sembly and jury courts) came altogether fr
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