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grbs-7011	Gagarin, Michael	The Prosecution of Homicide in Athens	2011	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10667	428	62	301 The Prosecution of Homicide in Athens Michael Gagarin BEFORE the publication of D. M. MacDowell's Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators 1 there had been general agreement among scholars for about a century concerning the prosecution of homicide cases in Athens: the regular procedure of StKYJ 4>6vov was available only to relatives of a homicide victim (or to the master of a slave) ; no ypa4>~ 4>6vov existed; and under special circumstances the relatives might use a special procedure, apagoge, to prosecute a homicide.2 Against this consensus MacDowell argued first (12-22) that StKat 4>6vov could be brought by others than the relatives (or master) of the victim, and secondly (133-35) that a ypa4>~ 4>6vov in connection with an apagoge could be brought by anyone (in theory at least). 308 THE PROSECUTION OF HOMICIDE IN ATHENS their advice and his decision that the trier arch provides some evidence for the law concerning prosecution in homicide cases.	cache/grbs-7011.pdf	txt/grbs-7011.txt