The Athenian people are loyal just to Athens; they live by a code, which prevents them from doing any wrong. Having respect of the law and the authorities for which they bring carries this out. Their beliefs enable them to follow ones heart were as not relying upon tricky management. Because of this belief they tend to relate to friends as people receiving favors from them because they feel that they owe them something until the debt what ever it maybe is paid off. These people wanted to be models for their neighbors, so that ever one would know how had the best citizens. Pericles gave a inaccurate description in his funeral oration of the Athenians people which were based on a certain law cases. One such cases is, the Diogeiton- A grandfather Turns Embezzler. The second case presented was the In-Law Problems- A Poisonous Stepmother.
In the case of Diogeiton- A Grandfather Turns Embezzler (c. 400), pp. 214-217 The brother of Diogeiton's was Diodotus, he was an extremely wealthy businessman. In the beginning Diegeiton some how convinced his brother to marry his daughter. Diogeiton hoped that somehow he would be able to benefit from his brother's success if something was to happen. Right after this Diodotus was
summoned to serve in the military, so he thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and write a will out so that if anything happened to him his brother would be able to take care of his wife and children. Diodotus also decided to leave Diogeiton with a large sum of money. Diogeiton was the first to be notified of his brother's death. He remembered that Diodotus had made a will, which was left at his house, before he went off. Diogeiton then proceed to run to his brother's house so that he could get rid of the will before people find out about it. He retrieved the will before anyone else could. After that he went to go tell the rest of his family what happened to their unfortunate sibling. Diogeiton decided to give a very small chunk of the money which Diodotus' family deserved, and kept the rest for himself. This caused the grandchildren-niece's and nephews of Diodotus to go to their mother and complain how Diogeiton is trying to cheat them all out of their inheritance. We are able to see how not once but twice Diogeiton married off for prophet. Here we see what was considered the worst kind of person because Diogeiton had not destroy the will but merely gotten rid of it. For years the rest of the family knew what they were su
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