Hectemoroi
Hectemoroi (Gr. Ἑκτήμοροι , "sixth") was, according to later tradition, the name for Attic farmers who, before the reform of Solon (594 BC?), Had to give either a sixth of the income to the landowner as a lease or only a sixth of the yield were allowed to keep. The sources, all of which were created much later, are contradictory and do not allow a clear conclusion. Karl-Wilhelm Welwei suspected that the existence of the hectemoroi was a milder alternative to enslavement , by giving the debtor the option of a loanTo be paid over a longer period of time through regular fees. For this purpose, the floor was marked with so-called guilt stones . Welweis pupil Mischa Meier, on the other hand, argued in 2012 that the hectemoroi never really existed; the author of the 4th century BC Athenaion Politeia , who originated in BC, had misread his submission and, through this misunderstanding, gave birth to the erroneous idea that there was once a hectemoroi.
literature
- Mischa Meier : The Athenian Hectemoroi - an invention? . In: Historische Zeitschrift 294, 2012, pp. 1–29.
- Karl-Wilhelm Welwei: Athens - From the Neolithic settlement to the archaic Greater Polis. Darmstadt 1992.
Text sources
- ↑ Aristotle : Athenaion Politeia 2
- ↑ Plutarch : Solon 13.4. See also the information in Hesychios von Milet and Photios I.
- ^ Karl-Wilhelm Welwei: Athens - From the Neolithic settlement to the archaic Greater Polis. Darmstadt 1992, pp. 156-158