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Policing Athens : Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C. /
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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 and testimony, obtained under torture, of slaves against their masters. She describes Athenian "policing" as a form of social control that took place across a range of private and public levels. Not only does policing appear to have been a collective enterprise, but its methods were embedded in a variety of social institutions, resulting in the blurring of the line between state and society. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780691194608 |