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Edward M. Harris, D. Leao, P. J. Rhodes
ISBN: 9780715638927
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. This collection of essays provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. It shows how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques.
The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. Some essays show how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques. Other essays examine the information provided about legal procedure found in Aristophanes' comedies or the views about the role of law in society expressed in Attic drama. The collection reveals reveal how the study of law and legal procedure can enhance our understanding of ancient drama and bring new insights to the interpretation of individual plays.
| ISBN | 0715638920 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9780715638927
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 08 Feb 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 882.0109 | | Academic level | Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | Orestes' trial and Athenian homicide procedure by Alan H. Sommerstein | | 25 | | 2 | | The legal horizon of the Oresteia : the crime of homicide and the founding of the Areopagus by Delfim F. Leao | | 39 | | 3 | | The legal (and other) trials of Orestes by F. S. Naiden | | 61 | | 4 | | Euripides' Orestes : the chronicle of a trial by Maria de Fatima Silva | | 77 | | 5 | | Citizens and non-citizens in Athenian tragedy by Roger Brock | | 94 | | 6 | | Paidotrophia and Gerotrophia : reciprocity and disruption in Attic tragedy by Maria do Ceu Fialho | | 108 | | 7 | | Is Oedipus guilty? : Sophocles and Athenian homicide law by Edward M. Harris | | 122 | | 8 | | Aristophanes and Athenian law by Douglas M. MacDowell | | 147 | | 9 | | The 'assembly' at the end of Aristophanes' Knights by P. J. Rhodes | | 158 | | 10 | | Pimps in court by Chris Carey | | 169 | | | | Index locorum | | 185 |
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