Packet 3: Tossup 14

Karl Julius Beloch used the etymology of this person’s name to argue that he did not exist. This leader was the first to use a rotating pyramid (15[1])called a kyrbeis (“keer-BAY-ees”) to display reforms on tablets called Axones. (-5[1])The Suda (15[1]-5[1])claimed that this leader suffocated (15[1])after people threw (15[1])hats, (15[1])shirts, and (15[2])cloaks (15[5]-5[1])at him in praise. (15[2]-5[1])This leader sidelined the (15[1])Areopagus (15[2])by creating (-5[1])the (*) Council of Four Hundred. (-5[1])Under this (-5[1])leader’s (-5[2])policies, debtors who owed money (10[1])to people of high class could be enslaved. (10[2]-5[1])Legendarily, this man’s anti-homicide laws (10[1])were the only ones kept by Solon. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 (10[2])points, name this Athenian (10[2])whose name is (10[1]-5[1])synonymous (10[3])with very strict rules. (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[4])

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