Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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EVIDENCE The Athenians rarely employed forensic evidence in court and the main work of an investigation was therefore the task of gathering witnesses. By the fourth century BCE, witnesses merely presented themselves in court to confirm a written deposition drafted by the litigant for whom they appeared. A prosecutor could summon a man to appear as a witness and prosecute him for failure to testify (lipomartyrion). There was no opportunity to cross-examine a witness. For evidence of a slave to be used formally it court, it had to be extracted under torture (basanos, literally “test”).
SYCOPHANTS To encourage public prosecutions, the state in some public cases gave a prosecutor a proportion of the fine or property confiscated from the offender if he won his case. Men who made a habit of prosecuting for their own dishonorable purposes became known as sycophants. To discourage unjustified prosecution, a law was introduced imposing a penalty on a prosecutor in most kinds of public cases if he either obtained less than one-fifth of the jury’s votes or abandoned the case before the trial. The penalty was a fine of 1,000 drachmas with (at least in some cases) partial disfranchisement in addition. It was also possible to prosecute a man for being a sycophant.
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Page 5: A scene from The Clouds (Aristophan
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Page 37 and 38: THE HOMICIDE COURTS One of the most
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Page 41 and 42: OTHER HOMICIDE COURTS If someone al
Page 43 and 44: PROPERTY OFFENSES A person who susp
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