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² The locus classicus for the role of at Athens is Ath. Pol. 48.4. See, however, Pierart, M., ‘Les EYYNOI atheniens’, L′Antiquite Classique 40 (1971), 526–573, who has demonstrated that accountability proceedings underwent considerable change between the early fifth century and the late fourth century.Google Scholar

³ Sommerstein, A., Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989), p. 130 Google Scholar. Podlecki, A., Eumenides (Warminster, 1989), p. 152 also sees in the passage a reference to the process.Google Scholar

⁴ Sommerstein, p. 129. Citing Dem. 23.80, he notes that Orestes would be particularly susceptible to as someone who had entered a sacred place after incurring the pollution resulting from homicide

⁵ Rhodes, P. J., A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981), p. 562: ‘since retired officials were allowed thirty days within which to present their ... it is more probable that a further thirty days were allowed for complaints to the ’.Google Scholar

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⁷ Boegehold, A., ‘Andocides and the Decree of Patrokleides’, Hisioria 39 (1990), 149–162.Google Scholar