CLCV 3201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Spartan Army, Ephor, Cape Matapan
9 May 2016
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We are told that pausanias begins to behave in a high headed manner when he begins to set up in the city of istanbul, the allies accuse him that he is treasonously collaborating with the persian king xerxes. The ephors summon him back, he loses his office and returns to sparta and is charged with public and private crimes (we know that the public crime is treason). Thucydides is thought of as a logical straight forward historian though his account is deeply questionable. It is the job of the ephors to collect evidence, he is charged by the greek allies though likely this was the athenians (they benefit by taking over command). Pausanias" case is heard by the gerousia and the ephors to prevent a chance of a hung jury. Pausanias is found guilty and is convicted for his private crimes, but he is found innocent on the public crime of treason due to insufficient evidence is thus set free.
