Street Theatre and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece: Shaming, Stoning and Starving Offenders inside and outside the Courts

Forsdyke, Sara

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“…Along with Peace, the farmers rescue Harvest and Festival, suggesting a rural perception that urban imperialism also threatened traditional piety and agrarianism. Finally, Clouds ends with Strepsiades burning down Socrates’s schoolhouse (1480–1510), a symbolic instance of popular justice possibly embodying traditionalist anger at a newfangled culture undermining Athenian society (Forsdyke 2008, 28, 33n101; Connor 1985, 88n29). Given the political context of Clouds , the burning of Socrates’s schoolhouse may have had the additional meaning of revenge against urbanites.…”

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The Urban/Rural Divide in Athenian Political Thought

NATHAN

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Contemporary analyses of Athenian democracy have focused on binaries such as mass/elite, free/slave, and male/female, overlooking the urban/rural divide. In this article, I argue that urban/rural was a central cleavage in the Athenian demos. Ancient thinkers including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle paid close attention to urban/rural differences and their consequences during the fifth century. Plato and Aristotle in particular developed sophisticated institutions and strategies to mitigate urban/rural divisions. Attending to the Athenian urban/rural divide deepens our understanding of the demos and highlights the importance of attachments to place, home, and customary ways of life for democratic stability.

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The Urban/Rural Divide in Athenian Political Thought

NATHAN

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…), but the court procedures remained:A normal case consisted of two litigants, one arguing that an unlawful act had been committed, and the other arguing either that it had not been unlawful, or that it had not happened. 22 …”

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Hammurabi’s Code: A primary datum in the conjoined professions of medicine and law

Pearn

2016

Med Leg J

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The history of our current law dates from Palaeolithic times. The first written laws were codified by the rulers of Mesopotamian kingdoms, from the beginning of the second millennium B.C.E. This history, and those of the medico-legal specialties in particular, trace their origins to Hammurabi's Code. Hammurabi (ruled 1792-1750 B.C.E.) was the sixth King of the First Dynasty of ancient Babylon, today an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq. Hammurabi's Laws (c.1760 B.C.E.), inscribed on at least one diorite stele, were set up in public places in Babylon, towards the end of the King's 43-year reign. Comprising almost 300 specific laws, with judicial punishment for transgressions, Hammurabi's Code reflects his role both as a guardian of the vulnerable and as a protector of the weak and powerless. Just as medical papyri from ancient Egypt (e.g. the Edwin Smith papyrus c.1600 B.C.E.) are regarded as the origins of western medicine, so Hammurabi is the pioneer of "medical" laws as these have evolved to their sophisticated state today.

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“…24.105 (discussion in Forsdyke 2008.10- 11). For the rite in case of adultery, seeForsdyke 2008.3-26, Pepe 2021.35, and Phillips 2021.20-22 with sources. 19 See Gernet 1937.391 and Sommer 1948.153-59.…”

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