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Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.

by: Hunter, V.J.

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Category: Ancient Greek Law / Ancient Roman Law
Code: 26176
ISBN-13: 9780691032689 / 978-0-691-03268-9
ISBN-10: 0691032688 / 0-691-03268-8
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 303
Book Condition: New
Comments: Out of Print as Hardcover

From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenian maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant?s character and testimony, obtained under torture, of slaves against their masters. She describes Athenian “policing” as a form of social control that took place across a range of private and public levels. Not only does policing appear to have a collective enterprise, but its methods were embedded in a variety of social institutions, resulting in the blurring of the line between state and society.
Hunter?s inquiry into topics such as household authority, disputes among kin, the presence of slaves in the house, gossip in the home and neighborhood, and forms of public punishment reveals a continuum extending from self-regulation among kn and punititve actions enforced by the state. Recognizing the bias of legal documents toward the wealthy, Hunter concentrates on exposing the voices of the less powerful and less privileged members of society, including women and slaves. In so doing she is among the first to address systematically such important issues as the authority of women, self-help, and corporal punishment.
Virginia J. Hunter is Professor of History at York University. She is author of Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides (Princeton) and Thucydides, the Artful Reporter (Toronto).

 


Introduction: Policing and Social Control
Ch. 1. Kyrios: Authority and Ambiguity in the Athenian Household
Ch. 2. Trouble in the House: Disputes among Kin and Their Resolution Out of Court
Appendix: Kin Disputes
Ch. 3. Slaves in the Household: Was Privacy Possible?
Appendix 1: Torture
Appendix 2: Instances of Torture
Appendix 3: What Slaves Knew
Ch. 4. The Politics of Reputation: Gossip as a Social Construct
Appendix: Gossip in the Lawsuits
Ch. 5. Policing Athens: Private Initiative and Its Limits
Appendix: Did Ephebes Have a Role as Police?
Ch. 6. The Body of the Slave: Corporal Punishment in Athens
Conclusion: Athenian Society and State Reconsidered

 

Subjects:
Actions and defenses
Actions and defenses Greece Athens
Actions et défenses Grèce Athènes
Athens (Greece)
Athens (Greece) Social life and customs
Athens (Greece) Social life and customs 5th-4th centuries B.C
Athènes (Grèce) Conditions sociales
Athènes (Grèce) Moeurs et coutumes Antiquité
Community policing
Community policing Greece Athens
Contrôle social Histoire
Familierelaties
Greece Athens
History
Juridische aspecten
Justice Administration Aspect social Grèce Athènes
Justice, Administration of Social aspects
Justice, Administration of Social aspects Greece Athens
Manners and customs
Normes sociales
Openbare orde
Police
Police Greece Athens 5th-4th centuries B.C
Police Greece Athens History
Police Grèce Athènes (Grèce) Histoire
Police communautaire Grèce Athènes
Public order services History
Slaven (arbeid)
Social control
Social control Greece Athens 5th-4th centuries B.C
Social control History
Sociale controle

 

 
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Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.

by: Hunter, V.J.

  • ISBN-13: 9780691032689 / 978-0-691-03268-9
  • ISBN-03: 0691032688 / 0-691-03268-8
  • Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1994

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock