Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
Title | Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens PDF eBook |
Author | David Cohen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1995-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521388375 |
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.
Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Garner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317800508 |
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.
Violence and Community
Title | Violence and Community PDF eBook |
Author | Ioannis K. Xydopoulos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2017-04-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131700177X |
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.
Law and Order in Ancient Athens
Title | Law and Order in Ancient Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Adriaan Lanni |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2016-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316715116 |
The classical Athenian 'state' had almost no formal coercive apparatus to ensure order or compliance with law: there was no professional police force or public prosecutor, and nearly every step in the legal process depended on private initiative. And yet Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. Why? Law and Order in Ancient Athens draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explore how order was maintained in Athens. Lanni argues that law and formal legal institutions played a greater role in maintaining order than is generally acknowledged. The legal system did encourage compliance with law, but not through the familiar deterrence mechanism of imposing sanctions for violating statutes. Lanni shows how formal institutions facilitated the operation of informal social control in a society that was too large and diverse to be characterized as a 'face-to-face community' or 'close-knit group'.
Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens
Title | Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Edward M. Harris |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2006-04-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113945689X |
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.
Recensione a: Law, violence and community in classical Athens, di Savid Cohen, Cambridge, 1995
Title | Recensione a: Law, violence and community in classical Athens, di Savid Cohen, Cambridge, 1995 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 8 |
Release | 1997 |
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Law & Society in Classical Athens
Title | Law & Society in Classical Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Garner |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780312008567 |
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.