Lysias against Nikomachos: The Fate of the Expert in Athenian Law1

Athenian Law · S. C. Todd

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abstract There are six preliminary questions which scholars traditionally ask about any surviving Athenian forensic (i.e. lawcourt) speech. Three of these questions concern the personalities of the trial: who wrote the speech? who was the speaker? and who was the opponent? The other three questions are about issues: what was the date of the trial? under what legal procedure did it take place? and what was the result? In terms of our level of knowledge, Lysias 30, Against Nikomachos is a typical speech: we are neither particularly well nor particularly badly informed. Out of the six preliminary questions outlined here, we know the answer to three (subject in each case to qualification), and the other three are unknown (although we may be able to guess at the answer to one of these).

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