Athenian Citizenship
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
citizenship · Athenian citizenship · citizen rights · entitled to citizenship · rights of citizenship · the rights of citizenship
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Against Eubulides
The legal status of being an Athenian citizen, the central issue under dispute in the trial, requiring proof of citizen parentage on both the father's and mother's sides.
They have maliciously asserted that my father spoke with a foreign accent.
On my part, however, I think that these very facts will more than anything else help me to demonstrate that I am an Athenian.
To show you that I am an Athenian on both my father’s and my mother’s side, and to produce to prove it witnesses whose veracity you will not question, and to break down the calumnies and the charges brought against me.
On Behalf of Euphiletus
The legal status of recognized Athenian citizenship, contested through deme registration and appeal, which the entire proceeding exists to determine for Euphiletus.
I should like, then, to hear from the most respectable of our opponents, whether he can produce any other sources of evidence to prove his own Athenian citizenship than those which we are employing in support of Euphiletus.
A law had been passed by the Athenians ordering that a revision should be made of the lists of citizens according to demes, and that anyone who was rejected by the votes of his fellow-demesmen should no longer enjoy the rights of citizenship;