Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (Key Themes in Ancient History) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 05 October 1995
- Format: Paperback 228 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521388375 ISBN 10: 0521388376
- Sales rank: 1,312,376
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Full description for Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
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.
