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Litigation and Cooperation: Supporting Speakers in the Courts of Classical Athens (Historia - Einzelschriften)

By Lene Rubinstein

Book information

Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Year
2000
ISBN
351507757X, 9783515077576
Open Library ID
OL18710801M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
38 MB (39825897 bytes)
Series
Historia Einzelschriften 147
Pages
290\290
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Synegoroi are widely known in Athenian law to have served as supporting speakers and aids to the main prosecutors within a courtroom. Lene Rubinstein argues that these people were an important part of court practice and social and political litigation, though largely ignored in many previous studies of Athenian politics. Her study draws extensively on the speeches of synegoroi, revealing their multi-functionality as witnesses, as co-speakers alongside the main prosecutor and as part of a collaborative legal team.

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