Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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OFFENSES AGAINST THE STATE Athenian democracy was deeply suspicious of public officials, and there were procedures in place to try to ensure that these figures did not overstep appropriate boundaries. At the end of one’s period in office, every public official had to formally render account for his services in a process known as euthunai. By the fourth century BCE, this seems to have been replaced by the possibility of eisangelia, roughly comparable to our idea of impeachment. Usually, eisangelia was brought directly before the full assembly.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS <strong>In</strong> an effort to encourage such actions, the prosecutor who failed to obtain 20% of the votes cast was not punished, as was the case in other public proceedings. Anyone who suspected treason could go directly to the Assembly or Boule council to report their suspicions rather than go through any preliminaries with a magistrate. A slave who participated in such informing (menyis) was normally given his freedom, though this may not have been a legal requirement.
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Page 3 and 4: Antigone accompanies her father Oed
Page 5: A scene from The Clouds (Aristophan
Page 9 and 10: Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murder K
Page 11 and 12: Orestes kills Aegisthus
Page 13 and 14: Orestes seeks ritual purification a
Page 15: The trial of Orestes on the Areopag
Page 20 and 21: The 5 th -century BCE Gortyn Law Co
Page 22 and 23: Lycurgus: The historical ()/ mythic
Page 24 and 25: Solon introduced major legal and so
Page 26 and 27: LECTURE OUTLINE C. CRIME, PUNISHMEN
Page 28 and 29: ATHENIAN TRIALS Trials consisted of
Page 30 and 31: EVIDENCE The Athenians rarely emplo
Page 32 and 33: ATHENIAN TRIAL BY JURY Well-develop
Page 34 and 35: Jury voting disks from the 4 th cen
Page 37 and 38: THE HOMICIDE COURTS One of the most
Page 39 and 40: The Delphinion: Tried cases in whic
Page 41 and 42: OTHER HOMICIDE COURTS If someone al
Page 43: PROPERTY OFFENSES A person who susp
Page 47 and 48: RELIGIOUS OFFENSES The law stated t
Page 49 and 50: ATHENIAN WOMEN AND CRIME Is it a co
Page 51 and 52: FEMALE OFFENDERS Women accused of c
Page 53 and 54: A man about to solicit sex from a y
Page 56 and 57: A male client solicits sex from a f
Page 58 and 59: PUNISHMENT In some categories of ca
Page 60: ATIMIA This was a penalty which cou
Page 63: A comic respresentation of a master

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