Ἡλιαία

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Ἡλιαία was the principal popular court of classical Athens, composed of large citizen juries and central to the city’s democratic legal system.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Athenian institution
judicial body
people’s court
popular court
appliesToJurors male Athenian citizens
associatedWithReformer Cleisthenes
Pericles
Solon of Athens
surface form: Solon
centralTo Athenian democratic legal system
composedOf citizen jurors
country Classical Athens
surface form: ancient Athens
decisionMakingMethod majority vote of jurors
function enforcing laws and decrees
exercising judicial review over officials
hearing private lawsuits
hearing public lawsuits
imposing penalties and fines
reviewing decisions of magistrates
supreme popular court of Athens
governingBody Athenian citizen body (demos)
hasCharacteristic direct democracy mechanism
large juries
lot-based selection of jurors
popular participation
historicalPeriod 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
Classical Greece
surface form: Classical period of ancient Greece
legalCulture absence of professional judges
no professional lawyers
use of litigant speeches
legalProcedure dikē (private suit)
graphē (public suit)
legalSystem Athenian legal system
locatedIn Classical Athens
surface form: classical Athens
maximumJurySize several thousand jurors
minimumJurorAge 30 years
oversightOf Athenian magistrates
public officials
partOf Athenian democracy
relatedInstitution Areopagus
Council of 500
surface form: Boule (Council of 500)

Athenian Assembly (Ekklesia)
surface form: Ekklesia (Athenian Assembly)
remuneration juror pay (misthos dikastikos)
selectionDevice kleroterion
selectionMethod sortition
sourceOfInformation Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution
surface form: Aristotle’s Constitution of the Athenians

forensic speeches of Attic orators
typicalJurySize 201 jurors
401 jurors
501 jurors
usedLanguage Ancient Greek
votingInstruments voting tokens (psephoi)
votingMethod secret ballot

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Heliaia hasGreekName Ἡλιαία