Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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PUNISHMENT In some categories of case the penalty was predetermined by statute. In others, the jury decided the penalty by a system of counterassessment. The prosecutor was personally involved to an extent not known today. There were two categories of punishment – physical and financial. Imprisonment was rarely used as a punishment. The picture we get from our sources suggests that death was by far the most common of physical penalties.
FORMS OF EXECUTION The death penalty was prescribed for men and women for intentional homicide, treason and sacrilege, and for men for adultery, seduction and malfeasance in office. Early sources speak about people being thrown into the barathon (a type of pit), but it is not clear whether this was a method of execution or a place for disposing of bodies of criminal. From the fifth century BCE onwards, the most common means of execution in Athens was the plank (tympanon), a piece of wood to which the condemned person was strapped by iron bands around the neck, wrists and ankles. The plank was raised upright and the condemned died slowly over a period of days. Some offenders convicted of capital crimes were granted the “privilege” of self-execution, perhaps by hemlock. In Classical Athens, capital punishment was frequently named as the possible penalty, yet there seem to have been relatively few actual executions. Exile for intentional homicide was permanent.
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