Keywords
City Lawyership
Advocacy
Arbitration
International Relations
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Abstract
This article focusses upon city advocacy in
the Hellenistic period. There are no comprehensive
studies on city lawyers in the modern literature. Studies
mostly focus upon the problems between cities. In
order to offer an explanation of city advocacy, case
texts between cities in the Hellenistic Period were
examined. Firstly, the concept of city advocacy is
investigated with the various terms employed to define
city lawyers. In the Hellenistic Period city lawyers were
referred to by the words: syndikos, ekdikos, proegoros,
synegoros, and, prodikos. Although in essence they all
mean "defending something or someone", their differences according to their field of duty are explained.
In the Hellenistic Period, cities move away from
solving problems between them through war and focus
upon solving their problems through law with the
arbitration of a third city or person. In consequence,
the duty of the city lawyer reached an important
position. When the inscriptions are examined, it is
understood that these advocates not only defended
their own cities, but also professionally defended other
cities. In the Hellenistic Period, mostly land / border
problems are encountered between cities. However,
this article includes the case between the cities of Kos
and Kalymna, which concerns a debt problem between
these cities. The city of Knidos was the referee between
these two cities. In addition, starting with arbitration
cases, mention is made of international relations in the
Hellenistic Period.
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