O retrato dramático do sistema judicial ateniense. Factores de bloqueio e de corrupçao

Abstract

The anarchy felt in the Athenian judicial activity is put on the stage by comedy and Euripidean tragedy, on account of their proximity to the immediate reality. After being established by a prestigious institution as the Areopagus, justice became a competence of popular courts, a kind of Athenian mark of identity. From these testimonies, we receive the irnage of the juges, with their corporationism and their dependence on politicians, of corruption affecting the impartiality of the system, and of the frightening interference of synegoroi, logographoi and rhetoricians.