Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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LECTURE OUTLINE C. CRIME, PUNISHMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW IN CLASSICAL ATHENS 1. The Reforms Of Draco <strong>And</strong> Solon 2. Procedure a) The Basics b) Preliminaries c) The Trial d) The Jury e) The Verdict
THE BASICS Athenian justice was no less purposefully democratic than its politics. The courts were in session about 200 days a year. One of Solon’s innovations was to allow anyone to initiate proceedings in cases where an offense was regarded as affecting the community as a whole. This established a distinction between a private case (dike idia), brought by a prosecutor who complained that he had suffered some wrong personally, and a public case (dike demosia), brought by anyone on behalf of the general public. With few exceptions, all legal actions were brought by an individual. To a large extent, anyone pursuing a wrong, against himself or society, was left to do the work which in modern states is usually done by official bodies. Very limited assistance from The Eleven and/or from the Scythian Slaves but . . .
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