CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pericles, Legal Personality, Alcibiades
18 Oct 2016
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Only male citizens 18+ had active political rights: groups had vastly different rights. The athenian left a decent amount of written records about themselves. Women: adult, citizen, not many political rights. Children: not adult, female or male, not many political rights. Metics: someone who lives with you, resident of athens who was not athenian; resident aliens. Freed slaves: not athenians, if they stayed in athens, same as metics. Slaves: not people in legal point of view, no rights. Athenian male citizens between 18 and 39 could expect to serve in the army or the fleet almost every year: posted list of people in public square who were to leave, life revolved around the city. Attending the ekklesia (assembly) every 10 days. Each year 6000 citizens were drawn to serve as jurors in popular courts: maybe 10% of active citizens, figures found in written records, thucydides, peloponnesian war: speech.
