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Kleroteria ( sing. -ion ): jury-selection machine

Athenian Jury-Selection: the kleroterion and the principle of randomization ( agathe.gr /democracy/ the_popular_courts.html : “Popular Courts, The Jury, The Speakers, The Verdict”). Kleroteria ( sing. -ion ): jury-selection machine. Sample pinakion (distributed at beginning of year)

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Kleroteria ( sing. -ion ): jury-selection machine

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  1. Athenian Jury-Selection: the kleroterionand the principle of randomization(agathe.gr/democracy/the_popular_courts.html:“Popular Courts, The Jury, The Speakers, The Verdict”)

  2. Kleroteria (sing. -ion): jury-selection machine

  3. Sample pinakion (distributed at beginning of year) ΔΗΜΟΦΑΝΗΣ ΦΙΛΙ[...] Δημοφάνης Φιλ[...]ΚΗΦΙΣΙΕΥΣ Κηφισιέυς Demophanesthe son of Phil[…]From the deme of Kephisia Formula:Name, patronymic, demotic Missing: Α-Κ symbolon to aid in randomization

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  5. δικαστήρια (dikasteria; sg. dikasterion): court assignments and voting σύμβολα (symbola) marked with jury-court symbols drawn randomly for assignments & used to claim jury-pay of 2 obols after trial Ballots for jurors (δικασταί, dikastai) marked ψῆφος δημόσιον (psephosdemosion, “public vote”): hollow for prosecution (guilty), solid for defendant (acquittal). Each δικαστής (dikastes) has two ballots & places them in two separate urns, bronze to be counted,wooden to be discarded.

  6. 5th-4th c. BCE lawcourts

  7. Roof-tiles as ballot box (dikastballots, kleroterionballs inside) Lawcourt (“Square Peristyle”) from the NE corner of the Agora, ca. 300 BCE NE corner of Agora, 5th-2nd centuries BCE Klepsydra (water-clock) holding two (XX) choes (~6 quarts) Original and reconstruction: ca. 6 minutes to run out

  8. The charge (δίκη):Antigone violated the law

  9. Trial of Antigone: cast of characters

  10. Preparations for the trial

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