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Cursing for Justice : Magic, Disputes, and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens

by: Papakonstantinou, Z.

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Category: Ancient Greek Law / Ancient Roman Law
Code: 27397
ISBN-13: 9783515129145 / 978-3-515-12914-5
ISBN-10: 3515129146 / 3-515-12914-6
Publisher: Franz Steiner
Publication Date: 2021
Publication Place: Stuttgart
Binding: Paper
Pages: 167
Book Condition: New
Comments: Reihe Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne Band 14

This book is a comprehensive exploration of curse tablets in the Athenian legal domain. Drawing on sociological and critical theory, Zinon Papakonstantinou outlines a framework for the interaction between curse tablets and legalities, namely in both formal and informal manifestations of the legal sphere, in Classical Athens. By delving into the complex world of Athenian daily life and disputes, Papakonstantinou argues that Athenians involved in litigation deployed binding curses as polysemic acts of conflict management and information control. They also used them as transgressive transcripts that went beyond normative or legislative taxonomies. Further, Papakonstantinou demonstrates how Athenians acting in a self-assessing and long-term agential mode employed curse tablets strategically to advance their individual agenda and position in Athenian society.

As a result, Athenian legal curse tablets point to a conceptually malleable perception of "law" and "litigation" driven by utility and self-interest that clashed with claims to justice, the pursuit of the rule of law, and attitudes towards jurors articulated by litigants in Athenian forensic orations.

 
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Cursing for Justice : Magic, Disputes, and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens

by: Papakonstantinou, Z.

  • ISBN-13: 9783515129145 / 978-3-515-12914-5
  • ISBN-03: 3515129146 / 3-515-12914-6
  • Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2021

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