Individual members of the Eupatridae class; aristocratic citizens of ancient Athens belonging to the privileged noble families.
English form of the Greek 'eupatridai,' altered to singular and plural English morphology by adding the '-s' suffix to create the anglicized version of the classical Greek term.
Eupatrids controlled the archonships (chief magistrate positions) for centuries before Cleisthenes' reforms, meaning the same families kept power for generations—ancient nepotism at its finest.
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