caa a22 4500 386376239 CHVBK 20180307112019.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632054 doi S0075426900012829 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632054 Worthington Ian The University of New England Armidale, Australia The duration of an Athenian political trial [Elektronische Daten] [Ian Worthington] The procedures involved in, and duration of, Athenian trials have been the subject of much attention, and it is the communis opinio that a public trial in Athens lasted for one day only. Yet the evidence for this is mostly circumstantial and difficulties arise when one tries to reconcile a lengthy trial, as evidenced by the existence of very long speeches, with a one-day trial period. The purpose of this note is to question the standard view and to put forward the suggestion that certain trials could extend up to two or three days in length. By way of introduction we may summarize what evidence we have. According to AP 67.1 only one public (as distinct from private) case per day was tried in a court of law and the modern assumption is that the issue had to be resolved by the end of that day. Therefore, the speeches of both prosecution and defence were of a fixed length of time and measured by the κλεψύδρα. This was a large amphora with a plugged hole at the bottom which was filled with water. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 204-207 0075-4269 109<204 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632054 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632054 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Worthington Ian The University of New England Armidale, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 204-207 0075-4269 109<204 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge