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[Author]\u00a0 <\/strong>Demosthenes (384-322 BC)<\/p>\n

[Work]<\/strong>\u00a0In Midiam <\/i>10<\/p>\n

[Place of work]<\/strong> Athens<\/p>\n

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[Period]<\/strong> 400\u2013350 BC<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Evegorus proposed that, on the occasion of the procession in honor of Dionysus in Peiraeus with the comedies and tragedies, the procession at the Lenaeum with the comedies and tragedies, the procession at the City Dionysia with the boys\u2019 contests and the revel and the comedies and tragedies. and also at the procession and contest of the Thargelia, it shall not be lawful on those days to distrain or to seize any debtors\u2019 property, even if they are defaulters. If anyone transgresses any of these regulations, he shall be liable to prosecution by the aggrieved party, and public plaints against him as an offender may be lodged at the meeting of the Assembly in the temple of Dionysus, as is provided by statute in the case of other offenders. (trans. A.T. Murray)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In the speech Against Meidias\u2014never actually delivered in court, as Demosthenes ultimately accepted a settlement of thirty minas offered by his long-standing adversary\u2014the orator denounces the impiety and repeated violations of Athenian law committed by his wealthy, arrogant, and overbearing fellow citizen, who had, according to Demosthenes, repeatedly transgressed both divine norms and civic statutes. Among the infractions attributed to Meidias, Demosthenes includes a breach of the law of Evegorus, which prohibited the seizure (\u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u03c7\u03c5\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9) or confiscation (\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u1f15\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u1f11\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5) of property from insolvent debtors during the celebration of the Dionysia, Lenaea, and Targeliae (see Manieri 2015, 61). Such a law was necessary because creditors might use the occasion of public festivals to track down debtors who were otherwise difficult to locate, thereby disrupting audiences engaged in watching dramatic performances or choral dances. Worse still, without such legal protection, debtors wishing to participate in the communal celebrations risked having their property confiscated in their absence. The law of Evegorus thus safeguarded the right of all citizens\u2014including debtors\u2014to take part in religious spectacles. It also reflects the civic humanity and religious sensitivity of the Athenians, who, as we learn from another speech by Demosthenes (Against Androtion, 68), even granted prisoners temporary release during festivals, though some of them reportedly used the opportunity to escape (cf. Pickard-Cambridge 1996, 82\u201383).<\/p>\n

The importance of the Thargelia within the Athenian religious calendar is underscored by the fact that Evegorus\u2019 law, as cited by Demosthenes, lists it alongside the renowned Dionysia and Lenaia, suggesting that the Thargelia, too, enjoyed a similarly high degree of religious solemnity. Although the precise date of the law remains unknown, it was certainly enacted after the law on prolabai, which is mentioned later in the same speech. What is certain, however, is that if\u2014as widely believed\u2014the mid-4th-century BC funerary inscription bearing the name Evegorus refers to the same individual, the law in question must have been passed during the first half of the 4th century BC (see MacDowell 1990, 230-231).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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[Reference editions]<\/strong><\/p><\/div>

M.L. DILTS, Demosthenis Orationes<\/em> vol. 2.1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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[Essential Bibliography]<\/strong><\/p><\/div>

D. M. MACDOWELL, Demosthenes, Against Meidias (Oration 21)<\/em>, Oxford 1990; A. MANIERI, \u2018Le Targelie ateniesi nei lessicografi antichi\u2019, RFCI<\/em> 143\/1, 2015, 61-75; A. W. PICKARD – M. A. CAMBRIDGE, Le feste drammatiche di Atene<\/em> (trad. it.), Firenze 1996 (or. ed. Oxford 1968).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dionysia; law of Evegorus; Lenaia; Thargelia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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