ABSTRACT
Oikonomia defined the organization and management of a household (oikos), with the aim of increasing the revenues and minimizing losses of that small and relatively closed economic entity, rather than creating a productive investment and a surplus value typical of the modern economic system, categorized by Finley as an 'enormous conglomeration of interdependent markets'. In particular, politeia has been identified with citizenship and politai with citizens, people who enjoyed political rights in ancient Athens and other Greek cities. Later in the sixth century, Cleisthenes reorganized the Athenian political community by providing adult male astoi with equal political rights, regardless of the amount of their property, and enrolling them in his newly established deme system. A comparison of the reforms made by Solon and Cleisthenes reveals that the interrelationship between the astoi (the kinship community), the politai (the legal community), and the demotai (the political community) adopted different forms in different periods of Athenian history.
