ABSTRACT
The details of how Kleisthenes actually carried out his reforms of the constitution are unclear. He appears not to have held any formal office (certainly not the arkhonship), but he may possibly have been given a special commission to revise the constitution after the departure of Isagoras. The date usually given for Kleisthenes’ reforms is 508/7, but there is strong evidence that the basic system took at least two or three years to set up, presumably with some kind of interim government operating during this period.
