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That's the picture in the earliest polis
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as best we can reconstruct it.
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Now, Aristotle tells us
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that beginning in the early seventh century,
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the date he gives us,
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of course we shouldn't put too much credence in it,
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it's too precise, but it's 683 B.C. This is the date he gives us
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and he tells us on that occasion,
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we are introduced to a new thing,
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magistrates are chosen from the aristocracy
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to do various jobs in the city.
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In Athens,