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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 263, p. 253

Kephisios. Kykloi. Kephisodotos. Kynegeiros. Kerameia. Kynosarges. Kerameikos. Kyrbeis. Lacedaemonians. Laches. Lamp of Prytaneion. Kerameis. Lamp market. Keramos. Lampon, seer. Kerkopes. Lapiths. Kersobleptes ... Agora 3 253 ... Kleroteria

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 14, s. 77, p. 52

The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The Agora of Athens; The History; Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Centre; The Facilities for Civic Administration; The Law Courts. The Athenian Agora; Volume 014; The ... Agora 14 52 ... Sterling Dow, Aristotle, the Kleroteria and the Courts, H.S.C.P., L, 1939, pp. 1-34

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Judiciary and Lawcourts

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Judiciary and Lawcourts The lawcourts of Athens, a city notorious throughout Greece for the litigiousness of her citizens, were both numerous and large. Several of these lawcourts were in the immediate ... He went at dawn to the kleroteria (27) of his tribe where he deposited his ticket in a box labeled with his section letter. When the tickets of all those seeking jury-duty had been deposited in the 10 boxes, they were pulled out at random and filed in the slots of the two kleroteria (28), each of five columns, with one column being devoted to each section-letter. 26. ... The archon in charge, having learned how many courts were to be filled and wishing to fill his tribe’s quota of the total number of jurors, put into the funnels at the top of the kleroteria as many balls (white for the number to be allotted and the remainder black for those to be dismissed) as there were tickets in the shortest column.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Jury

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The Jury The jurors for each trial were chosen from a large body of citizens available for jury duty for the period of one year. At the beginning of the year, each juror was given a bronze pinakion, a ... The pinakia were used in kleroteria, allotment machines that assigned jurors to the courts. ... According to Aristotle, a pair of such kleroteria stood at the entrance to each court (Athenian Constitution 63).