Scrutiny

In his treatise on the Athenian Constitution (55.3), Aristotle lists the questions posed to prospective archons during their official scrutiny (dokimasia):

• Who is your father?
  
• What is your father's deme?
  
• Who is your father's father?
  
• Who is your mother?
  
• Who is your mother's father?
  
• What is your mother's father's deme?
  
• Do you have an Ancestral [Patroos] Apollo and a Courtyard [Herkeios] Zeus?
  
• Where are these shrines?
  
• Do you have family tombs?
  
• Where are these tombs?
  
• Do you treat your parents well?
  
• Do you pay your taxes?
  
• Have you performed your military service?
  

I suppose none of these questions will be asked during the presidential debates this year, except perhaps the last one.