Athenian Litigation How Athenian courts provided a venue for Athenian citizens to debate their societal conventions
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This essay will explicitly look at the way in which Athenian litigation provided citizens a venue not only to try court cases but also discuss the societal conventions which governed their lives. This essay’s argument will be developed by assessing speeches in relation to three main areas of Athenian society: slaves, citizenship and behaviour. This essay will then show the consistencies between the different speeches in relation to these three areas, as well as cases where people presented different views and strayed from the norm, and the effect that this had on individuals and their position in society.
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