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http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_popular_courts.html 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 ... (Athenaeus, Deipnosophistai 14.640 b-c) The court buildings themselves seem to have been large colonnaded structures where the hundreds of jurors could be accommodated on wooden benches. ... This original complex was replaced toward the end of the 4th century with a large colonnaded court, square in plan (38.75 m. on each side), each interior wall lined with columns. Individual courts may have functioned simultaneously in the various colonnades; the space between the columns and back wall on each of the four sides could have accommodated a court of 500 jurors. |
http://agathe.gr/publications/monographs.html Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... Part III, by Michael B. Walbank, presents the records of leases for public and sacred lands, which once stood in the Agora; the documents are now in both the Agora and the Epigraphical Museums in Athens. ... The earliest church on the site, built over a wall of the 5th-century B.C. ... JSTOR | Search for Items Inside Attic Black-Figured Pottery Authors: Moore, M. B., Philippides, M. |
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