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Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion.

"The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the culture...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ando, Clifford
Otros Autores: Rüpke, Jörg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.
Colección:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Family, the Community and Murder: The Role of Pollution in Athenian Homicide Law; 2. Public and Private in Classical Athenian Legal Enforcement; 3. Some Ancient Greek Theories of (Divine and Mortal) Mind; 4. Ista tua pulchra libertas: The Construction of a Private Cult of Liberty on the Palatine; 5. "M. Tullius ... aedem Fortunae August (ae) solo et peq(unia) sua"; 6. Making the Private Public: Illegitimacy and Incest in Roman Law; 7. Public and Private in Emergent Christian Discourse.
  • 8. Staging "private" religion in Roman "public" Palmyra. The role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae)9. Can "Law" Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law; 10. Between Public and Private: The Significance of the Neutral Domain (Carmelit) in Late Antique Rabbinic Literature; 11. Shame, Sin, and Virtue: Islamic Notions of Privacy; Contributors; Index.