Allusion is made in Hesychius, Ἀτριάκαστοι, Ἔξω τριακάδος,
to persons not included in any gens, but this can hardly be
understood to refer to times anterior to Kleisthenês, as
Wachsmuth would argue (p. 238).
[108] The language of Photius on this matter (v. Ναυκραρία μὲν
~ὁποῖόν τι~ ἡ συμμορία καὶ ὁ δῆμος· ναύκραρος δὲ ὁποῖόν τι ὁ
δήμαρχος) is more exact than that of Harpokration, who identifies
the two completely,—v. Δήμαρχος. If it be true that the
naukraries were continued under the Kleisthenean constitution,
with the alteration that they were augmented to fifty in number,
five to every Kleisthenean tribe, they must probably have been
continued in name alone without any real efficiency or function.
Kleidêmus makes this statement, and Boeckh follows it (Public
Economy of Athens, l. ii, ch. 21, p. 256): yet I cannot but doubt
its correctness. For the τριττὺς (one-third of a Kleisthenean
tribe) was certainly retained and was a working and available
division (see Dêmosthenês de Symmoriis, c. 7, p. 184), and
it seems hardly probable that there should be two coexistent
divisions, one representing the third part, the other the fifth
part, of the same tribes.
[109] Strabo, ix, p. 396.
But though this early quadruple division into tribes is tolerably
intelligible in itself, there is much difficulty in reconciling it
with that severalty of government which we learn to have originally
prevailed among the inhabitants of Attica. From Kekrops down to
Theseus, says Thucydidês, there were many different cities in
Attica, each of them autonomous and self-governing, with its own
prytaneium and its own archons; and it was only on occasions of
some common danger that these distinct communities took counsel
together under the authority of the Athenian kings, whose city
at that time comprised merely the holy rock of Athênê on the
plain,[110]—afterwards so conspicuous as the acropolis of the
enlarged Athens,—together with a narrow area under it on the
southern side. It was Theseus, he states, who effected that great
revolution whereby the whole of Attica was consolidated into one
government, all the local magistracies and councils being made
to centre in the prytaneium and senate of Athens: his combined
sagacity and power enforced upon all the inhabitants of Attica the
necessity of recognizing Athens as the one city in the country, and
of occupying their own abodes simply as constituent portions of
Athenian territory. This important move, which naturally produced a
great extension of the central city, was commemorated throughout the
historical times by the Athenians in the periodical festival called
Synœkia, in honor of the goddess Athênê.[111]
[110] Strabo, ix, p. 396, πετρὰ ἐν πεδίῳ περιοικουμένη κύκλῳ.
Euripid. Ion, 1578, σκόπελον οἳ ναίουσ᾽ ἐμόν (Athênê).
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