Docimasia
Dokimasie or dokimasia ( Greek δοκιμασία ) refers to an official examination of people and things in ancient Greece.
application
In ancient Athens , applicants for higher offices, such as the basileus or the archon , had to undergo the dokimasia . The same applied to the enrollment in the citizen lists for Ephebe and for new citizens. The fitness test of horses for military service was also called this.
target
The dokimasia should ensure that tasks were only performed by suitable persons. Especially in public offices and in politics as well as in military leadership, the dokimasia was necessary in order to filter out obviously unsuitable applicants in the usual practice of drawing lots for offices .
Procedure
The dokimasia for public office in Athens was a judicial procedure in which the candidate first had to present evidence of his citizenship, the fulfillment of military service and tax liability and his integrity. Anyone could then raise objections and reproaches. Such procedures are described by Aristotle. The logographer Lysias has written speeches for docimasia proceedings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon: Dokimasie Zeno.org
- ↑ Oliver Stoll: To the glory of Athens: Knowledge for the good of the polis. Xenophon's ideal of a leader and Athens' cavalry in Hipparchikos ‹Logos›
- ↑ Aristotle , Athenaion politeia , ( English translation online ) 45.3; 55.2-5; 56.1; 59.4; 60.1
- ↑ Lysias 16, for Mantitheus [1] ; Lysias 25 Defense against allegations of undermining democracy [2] ; Lysias 26 for Evandros [3] ; Lysias 31 against Philon [4]