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035 _a(OCoLC)1280944798
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJohnstone, Steven
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDisputes and Democracy :
_bThe Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens /
_cSteven Johnstone.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (223 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tOne AUTHORITATIVE READINGS --
_tTwo LAW AND NARRATIVE --
_tThree DARE, OR TRUTH --
_tFour CONJURING CHARACTER --
_tFive CERTAIN RITUALS --
_tSix LITIGATION AND ATHENIAN CULTURE --
_tAppendix THE USE OF STATISTICS --
_tNOTES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX --
_tINDEX OF PASSAGES CITED
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAthenians performed democracy daily in their law courts. Without lawyers or judges, private citizens, acting as accusers and defendants, argued their own cases directly to juries composed typically of 201 to 501 jurors, who voted on a verdict without deliberation. This legal system strengthened and perpetuated democracy as Athenians understood it, for it emphasized the ideological equality of all (male) citizens and the hierarchy that placed them above women, children, and slaves. This study uses Athenian court speeches to trace the consequences for both disputants and society of individuals' decisions to turn their quarrels into legal cases. Steven Johnstone describes the rhetorical strategies that prosecutors and defendants used to persuade juries and shows how these strategies reveal both the problems and the possibilities of language in the Athenian courts. He argues that Athenian "law" had no objective existence outside the courts and was, therefore, itself inherently rhetorical. This daring new interpretation advances an understanding of Athenian democracy that is not narrowly political, but rather links power to the practices of a particular institution.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/740525
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767744
856 4 2 _3Cover
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