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Policing Athens - Virginia J. Hunter

Policing Athens

Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.
Buch | Hardcover
324 Seiten
1994
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03268-9 (ISBN)
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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 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.

Hunter's inquiry into topics such as household authority, disputes among kin, the presence of slaves in the house, gossip in the home and neighborhood, and forms of public punishment reveals a continuum extending from self-regulation among kin to punitive actions enforced by the state. Recognizing the bias of legal documents toward the wealthy, Hunter concentrates on exposing the voices of the less powerful and less privileged members of society, including women and slaves. In so doing she is among the first to address systematically such important issues as the authority of women, self-help, and corporal punishment.

Virginia J. Hunter is Professor of History at York University. She is author of Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides (Princeton) and Thucydides, the Artful Reporter (Toronto).

Reihe/Serie Princeton Legacy Library
Zusatzinfo 3 line illus.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 197 x 254 mm
Gewicht 652 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-691-03268-8 / 0691032688
ISBN-13 978-0-691-03268-9 / 9780691032689
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