Eleven men
The Elfmänner or Hendeka ( οἱ ἕνδεκα , Elf , also Nomophylakes called) were in Athens a judicial authority responsible for the enforcement of sentences was responsible.
The eleven men were so named because they consisted of 10 officials selected annually by lot and a clerk.
They were responsible for the supervision of the state prison , the execution of detention and the executions carried out by their subordinate officials . They also kept the lists of confiscated goods. For certain crimes such as theft , highway robbery , kidnapping and murder caught accused by way of were in the act Apagoge arrested and Elfmännern be demonstrated. If they admitted their guilt in front of these officers, the ( death ) sentence was immediately carried out. If the accused denied guilt, he was detained pending trial.
The eleven men also presided over the Parabyston , a court of law dealing with minor matters.
During the reign of terror of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens (404-403 BC), the oligarchic politician Satyros headed the Eleven Men Authority.
literature
- Franz Wolfgang Ullrich: The Eilfmänner in Athens. In: Franz Wolfgang Ullrich: Notes on the Platonic Conversations Menom, Crito and the second Alcibiades. Voss, Berlin 1821, pp. 53-105.