Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens Hardback
by David Cohen
Part of the Key Themes in Ancient History series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/10/1995
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- ISBN:9780521381673
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/10/1995
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- ISBN:9780521381673
