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Pentakosiomedimnoi

A class of Athenian citizens, i.e. owners of large, productive tracts of land.

When the noted statesman, Solon, reorganized the Athenian society (circa 594 BCE) he divided the citizens into four specific groups; the four classes under Solon’s constitution were:

  1. Pentakosiomedimnoi (the owners of large, productive tracts of land);
  2. Ippeis (named for their social class as horsemen or charioteers);
  3. Zeygitai (named for their social class as ox drivers); and
  4. Thetes (the lowest of the four classes of Athenian citizens, literally they were hired farm workers and served as lightly-armed soldiers and common seamen).

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