Law, Violence, and Community in Classical AthensThis book examines 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, the book emphasizes the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic society. |
Contents
Law and order | 3 |
Theorizing Athenian society the problem of stability | 25 |
Theorizing Athenian society the rule of law | 34 |
THE REALM OF THE COURTS | 59 |
Rhetoric litigation and the values of an agonistic society | 61 |
Litigation as feud | 87 |
Violence and litigation | 119 |
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