Athens
The Ancient "police force" responsible for maintaining public order
Who were the Scythian Archers?
The system that emphasizes military services
What is the authoritarian system?
Stealing public property (klope) or committing grand theft/robbery often carried steep financial penalties, forced labor, or the death penalty depending on the value and circumstances
What is Theft and Property Crime?
Fleeing from the enemy, dropping one's heavy shield, or showing cowardice resulted in being branded a tresas (trembler)
What is Cowardice In Battle (Tresia)?
Killing on the spot is U.S. punishment, Greek punishment or both?
Greek
The first written laws of Athens, known for harsh punishments, including the death penalty for minor offenses
What is Draco's Code?
Ancient Spartan officials who shared power with the hereditary kings
What are Ephors?
Often translated as adultery, this referred to illicit sexual relations with a free Athenian woman.
What is Sexual Offenses (Moicheia)?
Spartan full citizens (Spartiates) were strictly forbidden from practicing any trade, commerce, or manual labor. Making money and working were outlawed for citizens
What is Engaging in Labor or Trade?
The death penalty is a form of punishment in Greece, the U.S. or both?
Both (In some states of the U.S.)
These more moderate laws included debt cancellation, liberation of debt slaves, and formation of the Council of Four Hundred, laying the groundwork for Athenian democracy
What is Solon's Reforms?
Usually were members of one of the two kings’ households were called
What is Gerousia?
Crimes against the state religion, such as mocking sacred mysteries, defacing statues, or introducing unauthorized new deities
What is Impiety (Asebeia)
Possessing or introducing precious coinage
What is Hoarding Gold or Silver?
Getting caught while stealing food is illegal in Greece, the U.S. or both?
Greece
Laws foundational to Western legal practices, shaping Greek politics, family, and criminal justice
What are Ancient Greek Laws?
A collective body of Spartan citizenry, who would then select one of the options by voting
What are Damos?
Divided into premeditated murder, involuntary manslaughter, and justifiable homicide
What is Homicide (Fone)?
Citizens were legally required to dine at communal mess halls and contribute specific monthly quotas of food
What is Skipping Public Mess Halls (Syssitia)?
Murder, involuntary manslaughter, and justifiable homicide are a crime in Greece, the U.S. or both?
Both
Maintained public order with severe penalties, and regulated marriage, inheritance, and property ownership to ensure family stability.
What are Criminal and Family Laws?
A famous ancient sanctuary that served as the seat of an oracle, who consulted on important decisions throughout the ancient classical world
What is a Delphi?
Who aimed to reduce arbitrary decisions of punishment, which are decisions made by personal choice, and he aimed to reduce blood feuds between parties?
Who is Draco?
During the state-run training (agōgē), young boys were encouraged to steal food to survive, but getting caught in the act was punished severely with public flogging because they failed to steal with enough stealth and cunning
What is Bad Stealing?
Is stealing public property illegal in Greece, the U.S. or both?
Both