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Aeschines, Letters, 1.19-1.20


nanAnd what does he say? “If any Athenian,” he says, “shall have prostituted his person, he shall not be permitted to become one of the nine archons,” because, no doubt, that official wears the wreath;The myrtle wreath was worn as sign of the sacred character of the office, and it protected the person from assault.“nor to discharge the office of priest,” as being not even clean of body; “nor shall he act as an advocate for the state,” he says, “nor shall ever hold any office whatsoever, at home or abroad,whether filled by lot or by election; nor shall he be a herald or an ambassador”


nan—nor shall he prosecute men who have served as ambassadors, nor shall he be a hired slanderer— “nor ever address senate or assembly,” not even though he be the most eloquent orator in Athens. And if any one contrary to these prohibitions, the lawgiver has provided for criminal process on the charge of prostitution, and has prescribed the heaviest penalties therefor. Read to the jury this law also, that you may know, gentlemen, in the face of what established laws of yours, so good and so moral, Timarchus has had the effrontery to speak before the people—a man whose character is so notorious.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aristophanes, Clouds, 309-313, 308 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

308. εὐστέφανοί τε θεῶν θυσίαι θαλίαι τε
2. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.2.35, 2.2.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.2.35. Since you are ignorant, Socrates, said Charicles in an angry tone, we put our order into language easier to understand. You may not hold any converse whatever with the young. Well then, said Socrates, that there may be no question raised about my obedience, please fix the age limit below which a man is to be accounted young. So long, replied Charicles, as he is not permitted to sit in the Council, because as yet he lacks wisdom. You shall not converse with anyone who is under thirty. 2.2.13. And yet, when you are resolved to cultivate these, you don’t think courtesy is due to your mother, who loves you more than all? Don’t you know that even the state ignores all other forms of ingratitude and pronounces no judgment on them, Cyropaedia I. ii. 7. caring nothing if the recipient of a favour neglects to thank his benefactor, but inflicts penalties on the man who is discourteous to his parents and rejects him as unworthy of office, holding that it would be a sin for him to offer sacrifices on behalf of the state and that he is unlikely to do anything else honourably and rightly? Aye, and if one fail to honour his parents’ graves, the state inquires into that too, when it examines the candidates for office.
3. Aeschines, Letters, 1.20, 1.40, 1.72, 1.87, 1.188, 3.18 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 8.4, 41.2, 57.4, 63.3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

5. Aristotle, Politics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Plutarch, Solon, 8.2, 19.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8.2. and a report was given out to the city by his family that he showed signs of madness. He then secretly composed some elegiac verses, and after rehearsing them so that he could say them by rote, he sallied out into the market-place of a sudden, with a cap upon his head. After a large crowd had collected there, he got upon the herald’s stone and recited the poem which begins:— Behold in me a herald come from lovely Salamis, With a song in ordered verse instead of a harangue. Only six more verses are preserved ( Fragments 1-3, Bergk ). They contain reproaches of the Athenians for abandoning Salamis, and an exhortation to go and fight for it. 19.1. After he had established the council of the Areiopagus, consisting of those who had been archons year by year (and he himself was a member of this body since he had been archon), he observed that the common people were uneasy and bold in consequence of their release from debt, and therefore established another council besides, consisting of four hundred men, one hundred chosen from each of the four tribes. Cf. Aristot. Const. Ath. 8.4 . These were to deliberate on public matters before the people did, and were not to allow any matter to come before the popular assembly without such previous deliberation.
7. Aeschines, Or., 1.19-1.20, 1.40, 1.72, 1.87

8. Andocides, Orations, 1.75

9. Andocides, Orations, 1.75

10. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.261, 24.151, 27.5, 34.39, 58.27

11. Epigraphy, Ig I, 105.34

12. Lysias, Orations, 16.20, 21.1-21.2, 26.8



Subjects of this text:

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agora Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
aiskhines Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
archons,wearing crowns Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 175
archons pray and sacrifice for athens Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
areopagus Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 372
aristophanes,athens and festivals in Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 175
assembly,meeting place Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
assembly (ekklesia) Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
boule (council) Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
council of the five hundred,composition Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
council of the five hundred,eligibility Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
council of the five hundred,frequency of sessions Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
council of the five hundred,meeting place Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
council of the five hundred,pay Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
council of the five hundred,prytaneis Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 45
demosthenes Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
festivals Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 175
generals Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
lexiarkhikon grammateion Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
liturgy Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
magistrates,pray and sacrifice for athens Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
morals,and law. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 372
prayers for athens Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
priests and priestesses,public Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
private life,regulation of Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 372
registration,citizen Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
religion embedded' Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 97
sacred and secular Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 175
timarkhos Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32
xenophon Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 32