Litigation and Cooperation: Supporting Speakers in the Courts of Classical AthensSyn goroi are widely known in Athenian law to have served as supporting speakers and aids to the main prosecutors within a courtroom. Lene Rubinstein argues that these people were an important part of court practice and social and political litigation, though largely ignored in many previous studies of Athenian politics. Her study draws extensively on the speeches of syn goroi , revealing their multi-functionality as witnesses, as co-speakers alongside the main prosecutor and as part of a collaborative legal team. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Synêgoroi in the dikastêria the evidence | 24 |
Sharing risks | 76 |
The rôles of Athenian synêgoroi | 123 |
Synêgoria in a democratic context | 185 |
Catalogue of teambased prosecutions | 234 |
Tables | 257 |
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