Phyle
Phyle (
Dorian
region.
Attic tribes
The best-attested new system was that created by
trittyes ('thirdings'), to each of which were assigned between one and ten of the 139 existing settlements, villages or town-quarters, which were henceforth called demoi
.
Three sections, one each from urban, coastal and inland, were then put together to form a tribe. The 30 sections therefore yielded ten tribes, each named after a local hero and each with a geographically scattered membership roughly equal in size and hereditary in the male line thenceforward. They rapidly took on various functions.
They became the brigading units for the army; constituencies for the election of magistrates, especially the ten generals (
After this so called Period I that lasted until 307/306 BC, the system of Phylae had undergone few changes:
- in Period II (307/306 – 224/223 BC) two Macedonian Phylai were created (XI. Antigonis and XII. Demetrias);
- in Period III (224/223 – 201/200 BC) an Egyptian Phyle XIII. Ptolemais was created;
- in Period IV (201/200 BC – 126/127 AD) the Macedonian Phylae were dissolved and a Tribe XIV. Attalis, was created;
- in Period V (126/127 AD – third century) a tribe XV. Hadrianis was created.
Ten tribes of Thurii
When the colony of
Arcadia, 2. Achaea, 3. Elis, 4. Boeotia, 5. Delphi, 6. Dorians, 7. Ionians, 8. population of Euboea, 9. the islands and 10. Athenians.[4]
References
- ^ Pritchard 2000, p. 104–118.
- ^ Pritchard 2000, p. 104, 115.
- ^ Macan 1895, p. 369.
- ^ Fritz Schachermeyr, Perikles, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart–Berlin–Köln–Mainz 1969
Sources
- Pritchard, David (2000). "Tribal Participation and Solidarity in Fifth-Century Athens: A Summary". Ancient History. 30 (2): 104–118.
- Traill, John S., The political organization of Attica: a study of the demes, trittyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council, Princeton : American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), 1975
- Macan, Reginald Walter (1895). Herodotus the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Books with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, Indices, Maps. Vol. I. Macmilan and Company. Retrieved 2023-11-04.