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Origin of the Attic State
Athens as the purest case of a state rising directly out of gentile society: Theseus's central administration, the encroachment of money and debt on the peasantry, Solon's reforms by property classes, and Cleisthenes's final substitution of territorial demes for the gentes.
Theseus and the first central administrationDebt, mortgage, and the ruin of the Attic peasantSolon's property classesCleisthenes and the territorial state