The City of Athens vs. Phryne (In Stereo)

CLEWS The World's Worst Femmes Fatales - Season One

English - October 05, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MB
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CLEWS takes you back to ancient Greece. When a beautiful courtesan is charged with shameless revelry, a famous trial lawyer comes to the rescue of the damsel in legal distress. This is the amazing but true story of Phryne (or Frine) and her attorney, Hypereides, and the most shocking closing argument of all time.
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Sources:

Laura James, The beauty defense, 2020.

Dinarchus, Hypereides, and Lycurgus. 2010.

Hypereides: the forensic speeches by David Whitehead. 2000.

Memorabilia by Xenophon. 1979.

Robert J. MacCoun. The emergence of extralegal bias during jury deliberation. Criminal Justice and Behavior 17:303 (1990).

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