Overview
This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories of social conflict and the rule of law, as well as actual litigation involving the regulation of violence, the book emphasizes the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic society.
- | Author: David Cohen
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 05, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 228 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521388376
- | ISBN-13: 9780521388375
