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What did the Ancients do for us?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Yoram Gat

A 2005 BBC documentary has the answer:

As usual, the presentation is made in such a way as to imply that sortition was used solely in the courts, eliding its more crucial, and less familiar, roles in government.

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peterstone, on January 12, 2011 at 8:07 pm said:

Most interesting, if brief. The way the Kleroteria is described here, it sounds like potential jurors got to decide where their identity cards were placed on the machine. Does anyone know if that’s right? I hadn’t heard that before.

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