Greek Law in Its Political Setting: Justifications Not Justice
Justifications Not Justice
- Editore:
OXFORD UNIV PR
- EAN:
9780198140856
- ISBN:
0198140851
- Pagine:
- 184
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Greek Law in Its Political Setting: Justifications Not Justice
This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between law and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Emanating from several scholarly traditions, they offer a range of contrasting but complementary insights rarely collected together. What emerges clearly is that law in Greece only takes on its full meaning in a broadly political context. Dynamic tensions govern the relationships between this semi-autonomous legal arena and other spheres of life. An ideology of equality before the law was juxtaposed with a practical reality of individuals' unequal abilities to cope with it. It is hard to draw firm lines between the settlement of cases in court and the spill-over of legal actions into the agora, the streets, the fields, and the houses. Hence it is hardly surprising if justice can all too easily give way to justification.
