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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      05 October 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511620300
      9780521388375
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620300
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Key Themes in Ancient History
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Key Themes in Ancient History
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    The theme of this book is the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories of social conflict and the rule of law, as well as actual litigation involving the regulation of violence, he emphasises the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic social field. This perspective illuminates the social dimensions of litigation and the legal regulation of violence, and helps to explain otherwise puzzling features of Athenian litigation.

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    ‘Cohen’s is one of those exciting and rare books that take a large piece of historical orthodoxy, explain the intellectual matrix from which the accepted belief derives and present a cogently argued alternative ... [it] is one of the most perceptive and original works in Greek history to have been published for several years.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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