Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture 6: CLASSICS-2301-LECTURE-6

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2301A/B
• Professor: Randall Pogorzelski

Document Summary

Classics lecture 6 notes: we can use lysias 1 as a case study to see how criminal law worked in. He was born sometime in the mid 5th ce(cid:374)tury (cid:894)(cid:373)id 4(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s bce(cid:895). He was born in athens but his father was a resident alien or a metic named cephalus: lysias was a speechwriter in athens. He was not an athenian citizen, but a metic, or resident alien: cephalus appears in platos republic, after cephalus died, the young lysias and his brother paulamarcus left. Athens for the pan-hellenic colony of thurii in southern italy where he studied rhetoric: while he was in southern italy, the peloponnesian war was going on and it grew to involve all of greece. It started in 431 bce and in 415. Thurii as athenian sympathizers so they moved back in athens: in 404 bce, athens surrendered to sparta, ending the war, sparta then imposed a ruling council of 30 men as a government of.