bokomslag Greek Law in Its Political Setting
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Greek Law in Its Political Setting

L Foxhall A D E Lewis

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  • 1996
This volume explores the way 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.
  • Författare: L Foxhall, A D E Lewis
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780198140856
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1996-02-22
  • Förlag: Oxford University Press