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Greek Law in Its Political Setting

By L. Foxhall

Greek Law in Its Political Setting

By L. Foxhall

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This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between law and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Emanating from several scholarly traditions, they offer a range of contrasting but complementary insights rarely collected together. What emerges clearly is that law in Greece only takes on its full meaning in a broadly political context. Dynamic tensions govern the relationships between this semi-autonomous legal arena and other spheres of life. An ideology of equality before the law was juxtaposed with a practical reality of individuals' unequal abilities to cope with it. It is hard to draw firm lines between the settlement of cases in court and the spill-over of legal actions into the agora, the streets, the fields, and the houses. Hence it is hardly surprising if justice can all too easily give way to justification.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
184
Release Date:
1996-04-18
Publication Date:
1996-02-22
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198140851
ISBN13:
9780198140856
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
370 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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