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Pediakoi

One of the two political factions established by Solon in an attempt to reorganize the economic foundation of the government in Attika (Attica).

The Pediakoi, i.e. men of the plains, were owners of large tracts of land; the other group, the Paraloi, i.e. men of the shore, were commercial fishermen and sailors; these artificial groupings excluded the poorer people who had no organized political base but in 561 BCE the tyrant, Pisistratus, introduced a third class of voting citizens, the Diakrioi, i.e. men of the hills, and took control of the government.

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