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The forensic stage : settling disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy /

Graeco-Roman New Comedy has traditionally provided a source for legal historians examining the language and operation of law both in Athens in the fourth century and in Rome in the second century BC. Adele Scafuro here provides the first comprehensive treatment in English of one crucial area of this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scafuro, Adele C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The staging of dispute settlement
  • 2. Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest
  • 3. Arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome
  • 4. Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy
  • 5. Redress for sexual offenses in Athenian and Roman law
  • 6. The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy
  • 7. Arguing behind closed doors
  • 8. Entrapment and framing
  • App. 1. Official arbitration in the Attic orators
  • App. 2. Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens
  • App. 3. Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping, and slave stealing in Athens and Rome
  • App. 4. Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa
  • App. 5. Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy.