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- Title
Ein Schierlingsbecher oder ein Sprung ins Barathron? Hinrichtungsformen im klassischen Athen.
- Authors
Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
- Abstract
This article investigates the different forms of execution used in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to implement death penalties. An analysis of the three known methods of execution, apotympanismos, throwing the culprit in the barathron, and hemlock, can indeed reveal much about democratic ideology, the corresponding discourses, and their steady reinforcement through trials and punishments. This article argues that a chronological study of such forms of execution can provide precious, and yet until now unexplored, considerations for the debate about continuities and discontinuities in the Athenian democracy before and after the Thirty Tyrants. It is shown that the ways in which death penalty was implemented reveal the extent to which the defeat in the Peloponnesian War and the experience of oligarchy had changed the discourses in and about the Athenian democracy: the different forms of execution help thus in understanding how the concept of „equality" shifted from the fifth to the fourth century BCE.
- Subjects
EXECUTIONS &; executioners; CAPITAL punishment; CRIMINAL procedure; CRIMINAL law; DEMOCRACY; PELOPONNESIAN War, 431-404 B.C.
- Publication
Historische Zeitschrift, 2021, Vol 312, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0018-2613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/hzhz-2021-0007