An Unsolved MURDER from ANCIENT GREECE!
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In the 5th century BCE, Herodes went missing off a boat. A man from Mytilene, Euxitheus, was accused of him murder. In today's video, I go over the trial and legal system that allowed it to go off the rails. Many suspicious clues exist surrounding this one case. The only extant record of the trial is in the defense speech written by Antiphon, the Attic Orator.
Publicly available paper on the Murder of Herodes: / murder-of-78383934
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Sources
Robert Bonner - Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens
Kathleen Freeman - The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from the Athenian Law Courts
Michael Gagarin, David Cohen - The Cambridge Companion the Ancient Greek Law
Michael Gagarin - Antiphon: The Speeches
Michael Gagarin - The Murder of Herodes: A Study of Antiphon 5
Daniel Gillis - The Revolt at Mytilene
D. F. Leao, P. J. Rhodes - The Laws of Solon
Christine Plastow - Homicide in the Attic Orators
Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
K. J. Maidment - Minor Attic Orators I: Antiphon and Andocides
Virginia Hunter - The Prison of Athens
Stephen Tracy - The Wrongful Execution of the Hellenotamiai and the Lapis Primus
Christian Walz - Rhetores Graeci vol. 4 (Publication of Greek text of Sopater, translation of Greek is my own)
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This was intensely good!
Please do more videos on Greek and Latin as it pertains to the law.
I learnt much about ancient Greek legalese...
but, a boat related murder needed a jury of its piers.
It was that 'Pharmakos' guy wut went and ddddiddun diddit. Saved me from being Culled for having a sttttammer.
Surely it may have been less ‘incriminating’ if he had immediately thereafter said that of course the slaves statement was false. But then that changes nothing for us, nor would it have changed the outcome in the least. There are of course a long list of ways he could have been framed, even accidentally. And I take it we wouldn’t put it past them.
The past was awful.
Sophism!
It was actually the Hebrews. They're very slick.
Greece is the "word"
It was a witch hunt.