[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Popular Courts

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The Popular Courts The popular courts, with juries of no fewer than 201 jurors and as many as 2,500, heard a variety of cases. The courts also had an important constitutional role in wielding ultimate ... The text reads: "Of the written copies, the following four are inside: diamartyria (testimony) from the anakrisis (arbitration), law on the abuse of heiresses, challenge of testimony, oaths of litigants; Antenor put the lid on." ... We can infer that the evidence in this pot was used not only at public arbitration but at the trial as well.