Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

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FEMALE VICTIMS The rape of a free Athenian woman was punished by a fine of 100 drachmas. The penalty for a man who seduced or committed adultery with a free woman was death. A man who merely stepped over the threshold of the house of another without permission of the owner had committed the crime of outrage. Rape was legally a crime against a woman’s father or husband. When a married woman was raped, her husband had a legal obligation to divorce her, under penalty of losing his rights of citizenship.
FEMALE OFFENDERS Women accused of crimes could not defend themselves in court, but had to rely on a male relative to represent and defend them. If the penalty for a man who committed adultery with the wife of a citizen was death, the penalty for the woman was a miserable life. Legally a divorced adultress could remarry, but in practice this was unlikely because of her public shame. Abortion was an offense when a woman induced or procured it without the knowledge and consent of her husband or kyrios. There were certain crimes that only alien women and men could commit: failure to have a patron; failure to pay the alien tax; simulation of citizenship; and marriage with a citizen. The penalty for marriage with a citizen was being sold into slavery.
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Page 37 and 38: THE HOMICIDE COURTS One of the most
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