Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This biennial gathering brought together emerging scholars in the field of ancient Greek legal history to present cutting-edge research on topics ranging from Mycenaean landholding to Roman-era judicial procedures in Asia Minor. Friday, September 12, 2025Linda Rocchi (Kopenhagen) -"Finding the 'who' in 'whoever wishes': the legal capacity of volunteers in ancient Greek statutes" Linda Rocchi's presentation explored the institution of voluntary prosecution (ho boulomenos) in ancient Greek law, examining who possessed the legal capacity to act as volunteer prosecutors in public cases.Through careful analysis of both literary sources (particularly Athenian orators) and epigraphic evidence, Rocchi demonstrated that while voluntary prosecution in Athens was primarily designed to enlist citizen participation, non-citizens-including metics-were permitted to prosecute in certain types of public cases, such as probolai related to the Eleusinian Mysteries and graphai adikōs heirchthēnai.Her research revealed that when statutes explicitly specified "whoever wishes among the Athenians," this restriction
Author: Maria Elina Koulouri
Institution: Universität Hamburg
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
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