Moreover, lottery, rather than bloodline, was now used to select the members of the legislative Council, and which was to have five hundred members at any one time, fifty from each of the new transregional tribes. The patrician Aeschylus was often represented in the Council by peasants and dockworkers. These measures must have been disorienting. But they constituted a masterstroke. They created a sense of Attic identity, shared by men of all classes and livelihoods, which offered them, for the first time, equality under the law.
