Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens

Konstantinos Kapparis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4672-3 (ISBN)

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Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at existing fragmentary evidence largely from speeches, Kapparis reveals that it unambiguously suggests that free women were far from invisible in the legal system and the life of the polis.
In the first part of the book Kapparis discusses the actual cases which included women as litigants, and the second part interprets these cases against the legal, social, economic and cultural background of classical Athens. In doing so he explores how factors such as gender, religion, women's empowerment and the rise of the Attic hetaira as a cultural icon intersected with these cases and ultimately influenced the construction of the speeches.

University of Florida Konstantinos Kapparis is Professor of Classics and Director of the Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4744-4672-8 / 1474446728
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4672-3 / 9781474446723
Zustand	Neuware