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Ancient Greek juries were much larger than modern ones. The article mentions one trial with a jury of 883. It's also worth noting they took quite a few precauti
by fmajid 3y ago
Ancient Greek juries were much larger than modern ones. The article mentions one trial with a jury of 883. It's also worth noting they took quite a few precautions to ensure jurors were not bribed:
https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.html#4 https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.h...
- wslh 3y ago883, I wonder if it is just by chance a prime number?
- thaumasiotes 3y agoYes, the size of the jury is not fixed, so all of them are the size they are by chance.
- fmajid 3y agoThe Alamut article I linked to explains how juries were selected, using a very ingenious process, in section 2.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt describes how the kleroterion works, but I don't see anything about how jury size is determined? It literally just says that the number of white balls (linearly related to number of jurors assuming excess demand for jury duty and a constant number of columns on the kleroterion) is "a function of the number of juries that needed to be filled".
- fmajid 3y agoThe number of tags on each column is a variable function of how many potential jurors of that jury-section-letter showed up. Towards the end of the funnel, the rows would be incomplete, thus depending on the random balls from the funnel, the final number of jurors would also vary, at least for the last juries being selected.