Law Violence And Community In Classical Athens

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521388375
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens written by David Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, this analysis of the legal regulation of violence in Athenian society challenges traditional accounts of the development of the legal process. It examines theories of social conflict and the rule of law as well as actual litigation.

Author : Ioannis K. Xydopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131700177X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Community written by Ioannis K. Xydopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to construct such an agenda by exploring the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity, and highlighting a number of important paradoxes of ancient violence. It explores the forceful nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate and canalise violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regards to private and public space, landscapes and territories. The contributions to this volume range widely in both time and space: temporally, they cover the full span from the archaic to the Roman imperial period, while spatially they extend from Athens and Sparta through Crete, Arcadia and Macedonia to Egypt and Israel.

Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317800508
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard Garner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of abstract thought on justice and of the democratic politics of the fifth century. His work is a valuable source of information on all aspects of Athenian law and its relation to culture.

Author : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198801
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Order in Ancient Athens written by Adriaan Lanni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.

Author : Gabriel Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521850215
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens written by Gabriel Herman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a model for societal behaviour and morality in ancient Athens.

Author : Deborah Kamen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846536
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Status in Classical Athens written by Deborah Kamen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays out the evidence for a much broader and more complex spectrum of statuses, one that has important implications for understanding Greek social and cultural history. By revealing a social and legal reality otherwise masked by Athenian ideology, Deborah Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy. Each chapter is devoted to one of ten distinct status groups in classical Athens (451/0-323 BCE): chattel slaves, privileged chattel slaves, conditionally freed slaves, resident foreigners (metics), privileged metics, bastards, disenfranchised citizens, naturalized citizens, female citizens, and male citizens. Examining a wide range of literary, epigraphic, and legal evidence, as well as factors not generally considered together, such as property ownership, corporal inviolability, and religious rights, the book demonstrates the important legal and social distinctions that were drawn between various groups of individuals in Athens. At the same time, it reveals that the boundaries between these groups were less fixed and more permeable than Athenians themselves acknowledged. The book concludes by trying to explain why ancient Greek literature maintains the fiction of three status groups despite a far more complex reality.

Author : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452657
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens written by Adriaan Lanni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2006 book, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyses the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualised and discretionary approach to justice.

Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312008567
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law & Society in Classical Athens written by Richard Garner and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of Greek thought on justice and of the political system of the democracy. Social factors such as the position of women are also relevant to the study of the law. In addition, the author has taken cognisance of the archæological evidence for the practice of the Athenian law courts; and the evidence for forensic practice both in speeches and in the drama is carefully discussed. -- Book jacket.

Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945689X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens written by Edward M. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays on Athenian law by Edward M. Harris, who challenges much of the recent scholarship on this topic. Presenting a balanced analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens, Harris stresses the importance of substantive issues and their contribution to our understanding of different types of legal procedures. He combines careful philological analysis with close attention to the political and social contexts of individual statutes. Collectively, the essays in this volume demonstrate the relationship between law and politics, the nature of the economy, the position of women, and the role of the legal system in Athenian society. They also show that the Athenians were more sophisticated in their approach to legal issues than has been assumed in the modern scholarship on this topic.

Author : Chris Carey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004377891
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts written by Chris Carey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field of Greek law to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens from a variety of perspectives.