Policing Athens : Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C. /

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From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenians maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant's character an...

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Autor principal: Hunter, Virginia J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social control.
Police.
Manners and customs.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Contrôle social > Histoire.
Social control > History.
Police > Greece > Athens > History.
Greece > Athens.
Athens (Greece) > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Policing and Social Control
  • Ch. 1. Kyrios: Authority and Ambiguity in the Athenian Household
  • Ch. 2. Trouble in the House: Disputes among Kin and Their Resolution Out of Court
  • Appendix: Kin Disputes
  • Ch. 3. Slaves in the Household: Was Privacy Possible?
  • Appendix 1: Torture
  • Appendix 2: Instances of Torture
  • Appendix 3: What Slaves Knew
  • Ch. 4. The Politics of Reputation: Gossip as a Social Construct
  • Appendix: Gossip in the Lawsuits
  • Ch. 5. Policing Athens: Private Initiative and Its Limits
  • Appendix: Did Ephebes Have a Role as Police?
  • Ch. 6. The Body of the Slave: Corporal Punishment in Athens
  • Conclusion: Athenian Society and State Reconsidered.

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