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Athena's institutional answer to an impossible moral conflict, anticipating democracy as shared divine authority.
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Athena's institutional answer to an impossible moral conflict, anticipating democracy as shared divine authority.
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Athena's response to Orestes's impossible case is to convene a jury of 500 Athenian citizens, with both sides making morally compelling arguments.
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Jiang argues that the Oresteia tells Athenians democracy came from Athena and gives each juror the same voting power as the goddess herself.
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"...on Orestes, and she says, basically, I'm going to convene a jury, okay, of 500 Athenian citizens. And you will tell, you will make..."
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"Does that make sense? So that's the story. So what's the relevance of this story? Well, for Athens, it tells them where democracy comes..."
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"...that if you commit a crime, you are still guaranteed a jury, a trial, before you are punished. All right? There's a process in..."
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"...his son to the thinkery to learn how to lie to juries his son who is a playboy refuses because he says that Socrates..."
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"...there's nothing I can do about it, okay? So, obviously, the jury was insulted by his speech and they voted out of 500 people,..."
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"So it's what we call a hung jury, okay? It was divided evenly. So what then happens now is, Athena comes in and says..."
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