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The People's Court: How Athenian Juries Ruled on Life and Death
In this episode of Ancient Greece: Philosophy, Democracy, and Endless War, Lucas and Luna explore the heart of Athenian democracy: the dikasteria, the people's courts. They unpick the lottery system that selected jurors, the heliastic oath they swore, and the revolutionary concept of graphē paranomon—which allowed any citizen to challenge a proposed law as unconstitutional. Then they turn to one of the most notorious trials in Athenian history: the aftermath of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 BC, where a furious assembly condemned ten victorious generals to death in a single illegal vote…
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