Pick out one issue from the reading that interests you, and come prepared to talk about it. Different questions we might ask require us to look at one or more of these periods. We will return to this issue later. This story can at least be taken as indicating tensions in Athens before Draco and Solon. Modern scholars are highly sceptical of his historicity.
Different scholars attribute different motives to different figures.
Tracing details of relations between political, social, and cultic organization depends on reconstruction of periods poorly documented, so these relations are necessarily poorly understood. But for the historian of religion such relations are of vital importance. All Greek cities shared names of gods, basic ritual procedures, and myths. Pressure towards homogeneity, induced in part by sense of cultural unity among city-states. Compare Burkert on this problem, p. 216.