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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I think that it was Cleon that raised the jurors' pay to three obols.

"Pericles, Cleon.

Among the reforms of Cleisthenes (508) was the law of ostracism (q.v.). The privileges of the Areopagus were curtailed (while its right to try certain cases of homicide was left untouched) by the reforms of Ephialtes (462), and of Pericles, who also restored the thirty "local justices" (453), limited the franchise to those of citizen-blood by both parents (451), and was the first to assign to jurors a fee for their services in the law-courts, which was raised to three obols by Cleon (425)." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" I think this is from there anyway, I did use an online copy so it may have been tampered with but I don't see any reason for anyone to have done that. I believe it's also mentioned in Aristophanes' play Wasps that under Cleon's rule that was the pay. --119.224.36.156 (talk) 22:02, 21 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

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