Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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 . . .