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Was drunkenness an aggravating factor in Athenian Law, as it was, for example, in Mytilene during the time of Pittacus? Aristotle seems to imply this in a passage of his Nicomachean Ethics, when he says that both common people and lawgivers do not consider subject to “pardon” (syggnome) the offence perpetrated by an intoxicated person. A careful analysis of the evidence provided by Athenian judicial speeches, however, shows that in general terms the Aristotelic stance cannot be considered absolutely true. Only when clearly linked with a hybristic behavior drunkenness was held as a cause of an intentional offence, and accordingly punished as such.
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Drunkenness, Responsibility, Athenian Law, Logographers, Aristotle -
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