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Acquiescence
Adrasteia
Aeschylus
Against Neaera
Against Timarchus
Alastor
Arbitration
Aristagora
Atimia
Attempt
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Callicles
Carceral archipelago
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Chaerephon
Clytemnestra
Critias
Decree
Demades
Demagogue
Demosthenes
Devotio
Diodotus (son of Eucrates)
Dionysia
Eleusinian Mysteries
Epimetheus (mythology)
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Eurystheus
Glaucon
Hamartia
Heliaia
Hubris
Imprisonment
Institution
Iphigenia
Iphigenia in Tauris
Isaeus
Isonomia
Jury
Kratos (mythology)
Lycidas
Metic
Miasma (Greek mythology)
Mytilenian Debate
Nomos (mythology)
Oedipus the King
Phocion
Phren
Pity
Pleonexia
Politics
Promethea
Prometheus
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus)
Proscription
Prosecutor
Pseudohistory
Punishment
Pylades
Pythagoreanism
Sophocles
Sophron
Star Chamber
Sycophant
Tecmessa
The Philosopher
Themistocles
Thrasymachus
Thucydides
Torture
Trojan War
Wrongdoing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691094892
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in vivid detail the cultural context of this conversation, Allen shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Each member of the city--including notably women and slaves--had a specific role to play in restoring equilibrium among punisher, punished, and society. The common view is that democratic legal processes moved away from the "emotional and personal" to the "rational and civic," but Allen shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Allen draws upon oratory, tragedy, and philosophy to present the lively intellectual climate in which punishment was incurred, debated, and inflicted by Athenians.
Broad in scope, this book is one of the first to offer both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment. It will engage classicists, political theorists, legal historians, and anyone wishing to learn more about the relations between institutions and culture, normative ideas and daily events, punishment and democracy.
Danielle S. Allen is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science, and the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a 2001 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
