Law and Social Status in Classical Athens
Title | Law and Social Status in Classical Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia J. Hunter |
Publisher | Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780199240111 |
'Compact and clever collection of essays.' -Journal of Hellenic StudiesThe subject of this collection is the articulation of law and social status in classical Athens. More particularly, the work concentrates on the way in which the law of Athens constructed and sustained social status by enshrining privileges for some citizens and disabilities for metics and slaves. As a whole, it reinforces the reality of three juridically defined status groups whose role in society and whose personal lives were deeply affected by their place in the prevailing hierarchy.
Status in Classical Athens
Title | Status in Classical Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah E Kamen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2013-07-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400846536 |
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.
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 | 172 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317800516 |
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.
Athenian Law and Society
Title | Athenian Law and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Konstantinos A. Kapparis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2018-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317177517 |
Athenian Law and Society focuses upon the intersection of law and society in classical Athens, in relation to topics like politics, class, ability, masculinity, femininity, gender studies, economics, citizenship, slavery, crime, and violence. The book explores the circumstances and broader context which led to the establishment of the laws of Athens, and how these laws influenced the lives and action of Athenian citizens, by examining a wide range of sources from classical and late antique history and literature. Kapparis also explores later literature on Athenian law from the Renaissance up to the 20th and 21st centuries, examining the long-lasting impact of the world’s first democracy. Athenian Law and Society is a study of the intersection between law and society in classical Athens that has a wide range of applications to study of the Athenian polis, as well as law, democracy, and politics in both classical and more modern settings.
Law, Sexuality, and Society
Title | Law, Sexuality, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | David Cohen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1994-02-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521466424 |
Examines the regulation of sexuality, the family and unorthodox religious beliefs in classical Athens, by placing the question in a larger comparative and theoretical framework.
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.