Athenian juries differ from American juries because they were bigger with as much as 501 citizens. the metics were foreigners. They were foreign residents. The rights they had was they could be presented with citizenship, but not have it.
Athenian juries differ from American juries because they were bigger with as much as 501 citizens. the metics were foreigners. They were foreign residents. The rights they had was they could be presented with citizenship, but not have it.
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It was a way of spreading the money mulcted from the cities of the Athenian empire around the citizens to keep them happy. It also recompensed them for time sitting on juries insted of farming or working at their trade. The juries were large (usually 500) and several sat each day, so there was a lot of time lost by them, and so there was a need to recompense them. But it was part of the way of spreading the money around as well. About half the Athenian citizens were on the public payroll in service on juries, the army, the navy, 500 councilors, and other public duties.
Vice-admiralty courts were run by officers and did not have juries.
The citizens - adult males -were called up for jury service.
Athens had less concentrated power.
The Athenian jury system selected jurors randomly from a pool of volunteers, while the US jury system selects jurors from voter registration or drivers license lists. In Athens, the jury size could be up to 501 citizens, while in the US, a standard jury size is 12. Additionally, in Athens, jurors voted by placing a token in one of two urns, whereas in the US, jurors deliberate and reach a consensus verdict.
Male Athenian citizens were paid to be a part of the jury of assembly because it was one of their duties of citizenship. While some men only sat on the jury occasionally, others used the jury as their source of income.
In smuggling courts there was no juries just a judge.
Juries are the "Triers of Fact."
Vice-admiralty courts were run by officers and did not have juries.
Begun by Cleisthenes 508 BCE, revived by Ephialtes 460 BC, extended by his deputy Pericles after Ephialtes was murdered for doing it.