CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Dhole, Agon, Athenian Democracy
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Please see copyright information at the end of this document. Afflicted with a constant desire to judge and to convict the people brought before the courts of athens, Philocleon was locked up in his own house by his son, bdelycleon, who had previously tried all rational means of persuading his father to give up his mania and become a gentleman. Bdelycleon even resorted to a net cast around the house in order to keep his father from leaving. Two slaves, sosias and xanthias, were set to guard the house, and bdelycleon, as an added precaution, watched from the roof. The three men were kept busy thwarting philocleon"s attempts to escape. The ass moaned and groaned so intently, however, that xanthias noticed the concealed burden. Philocleon was caught and thrust back into the house just before the other jurymen, the wasps, arrived to escort him to the courts.
