Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens by David Cohen

Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens by David Cohen

The theme of this book is the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories of social conflict and the rule of law, as well as actual litigation involving the regulation of violence, he emphasises the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic social field. This perspective illuminates the social dimensions of litigation and the legal regulation of violence, and helps to explain otherwise puzzling features of Athenian litigation.

'Cohen's is one of those exciting and rare books that take a large piece of historical orthodoxy, explain the intellectual matrix from which the accepted belief derives and present a cogently argued alternative.. [it] is one of the most perceptive and original works in Greek history to have been published for several years.' The Times Literary Supplement

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ISBN 13	9780521388375
ISBN 10	0521388376
Titre	Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
Auteur	David Cohen
Série	Key Themes In Ancient History
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	1995-10-05
Nombre de pages	228
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