Greek Law in Its Political Setting

Greek Law in Its Political Setting
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 0198140851
ISBN-13 : 9780198140856
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Book Synopsis Greek Law in Its Political Setting by : Lin Foxhall

Download or read book Greek Law in Its Political Setting written by Lin Foxhall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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