Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Manslaughter, Homicide, Oea
16 Jan 2017
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Made a living for writing speeches for the law court: 34 speeches that are surviving and 104 not surviving, writer after the restoration of democracy in 403 bce. Not athenian citizen but a resident alien. Defendant will present himself as the victim of crime and present the man he killed as the criminal: euphiletos claims the murder was justified. Lysias claims that eratosthenes seduced euphiletos" wife and euphiletos found out: legal under draco"s homicide law (oldest law in classical athens) Emotional situation that a man cannot be held responsible for his actions. Lysias: the law demands that adulterers be executed: summary execution was not illegal, euphiletos caught the adulterer, adulterer admitted his guilt and euphiletos executed on behalf of the law, was already in the libation bearers. [1] i would be very grateful, gentlemen, if you, the jurymen in this case, judged me as you would judge yourselves, were you to go through the same sort of experience.
