Aeschines Laws Against Timarchus

Aeschines sets the stage to his prosecution, against Timarchus, by reading out laws and putting them into some context. He points out that there are laws to protect a free-born child or free-born woman from “any person [who] acts as pander”. (Aeschines ¶ 14) So both free born women and children are not to indulge others in distasteful acts. There are laws that allow people who are outraged, whether ''a child, or a man or woman, or any one, free or slave” to prosecute the person who has wronged them. (Aeschines, ¶ 15-17) This allows Aeschines to prosecute Timarchus since he claims to have not only been outraged by his actions. Also he broke some the laws that prohibits him from holding public office and addressing the people because he has prostituted his person. (Aeschines, ¶ 21) There is a law that protects fathers and mothers from the neglect of their children,
Pamphilus believed that Timarchus was in a sexual relationship with Hegesandrus. Therefore, he called Timarchus a woman since he believed that he would have been the one being penetrated. All because he was supposedly taking money in exchange for sex. Hegesandrus was also called a woman in the past for having been with Laodamas. (Aeschines, ¶ 110-111) Timarchus was effeminate because being penetrated in ancient Greek culture was viewed as a female act of submission done out a lust and without restrain. (Dover, p. 65) This brought Aeschines back to his point that Timarchus was abusing his body since he was a free citizen man and demeaning himself to the level of a citizen woman and foreigner by selling his body. By acting in such a way it puts in doubt is loyalty to the Polis and the interest of the people with his inability to restrain from lustful acts. (Aeschines, ¶ 29) He also used those allegations as a way to effeminate Timarchus and discrediting his position in the