The Eupatrids
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Constitution of the Athenians (Greek)
rather he was the first to set apart separately the eupatrids and the farmers and the craftsmen, and assigning to the eupatrids the knowledge of divine things and the providing of the magistrates and the being teachers of the laws and expounders of sacred and holy things, he established the other citizens, as it were, on an equal footing—the eupatrids being thought to excel in reputation, the farm …
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Constitution of the Athenians
One of the three classes Theseus set apart, charged with religious knowledge, providing magistrates, and expounding law, thought to excel in reputation.
rather he was the first to set apart separately the eupatrids and the farmers and the craftsmen, and assigning to the eupatrids the knowledge of divine things and the providing of the magistrates and the being teachers of the laws and expounders of sacred and holy things, he established the other citizens, as it were, on an equal footing—the eupatrids being thought to excel in reputation, the farm …
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The ancient Athenian aristocracy, invoked as a comparative parallel to Indian village-community classes.
It has often occurred to me that Indian functionaries, in their vehement controversies about the respective rights of the various classes which make up the village-community, are unconsciously striving to adjust, by a beneficent arbitration, the claims and counter-claims of the Eupatrids and the Demos, of the Populus and the Plebs.
Concerning the Team of Horses
The ancient Athenian aristocratic clan to which Alcibiades the elder belonged through his father.
My father on the male side belonged to the Eupatrids, whose noble birth is apparent from the very name.