Round 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 claimed that this leader suffocated after people threw hats, (15[1])shirts, and (15[1])cloaks at him in praise. This leader sidelined the Areopagus by creating the (*) Council of Four Hundred. Under this leader’s policies, debtors who owed money to people of high class could be enslaved. Legendarily, this man’s anti-homicide laws were the only ones kept by Solon. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Athenian whose name is (10[1])synonymous with very strict rules. ■END■

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