Bias of Priene: The Honourable Judge

[@KevinBarryTV]

i cant read the quotes cause your suggested video pop-ups at the end cover them up.

[@historicaladventurevideos]

Thank you for pointing this out and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I removed the suggested videos.

[@KevinBarryTV]

@@historicaladventurevideos Thanks for the quick response. The content here is priceless and I thank you greatly for putting this series together!

[@historicaladventurevideos]

​@@KevinBarryTV Thank you kindly!

[@milouenmai3]

Quietly in the arms of his grandson during the trial? 😢

[@godspeedbabylon1663]

Ironic that a good judge’s name was Bias!

[@Frog_king11]

I don't think ancient greeks had lawyers, or judges?

[@historicaladventurevideos]

While they didn't have a system that resembles the modern justice system, they most definitely had public courts. It is true that lawyers were not like the lawyers today. They were more like public orators who spoke in defense of/or against someone. Regarding the judges, in the public courts there could either be individual judges or a group of judges like the Aeropagus in Athens. According to the writer Diogenes Laertius, Bias was both a judge and a lawyer.

[@Frog_king11]

@historicaladventure573 so if you know all this, then why not explain it properly in your video.

[@historicaladventurevideos]

@@Frog_king11 Because this is a video about one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, not the judicial system of ancient Greece.

[@Frog_king11]

​@historicaladventure573 I understand but you misrepresented the true history by claiming he was a lawyer and a judge.

[@historicaladventurevideos]

@@Frog_king11 Not really. I did not misrepresent the true history, because he was actually a lawyer and a judge. At least according, to the ancient sources. I just explained in my previous comment that lawyers back then were not like the lawyers today. (That's maybe the only thing that I should have made more clear in my video) And I also explained that judges did exist back then, either as individuals or as a council, much like modern times. So I did not ''claim'' anything, I just stated what the sources said.