Forensic Stage - Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy

Klappentext This pioneering work explores how legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and second-century BC Rome. Zusammenfassung This pioneering work explores how legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and second-century BC Rome. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Pre-Trial Plays: 1. The staging of dispute settlement; 2. Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest; Part II. Reconciliation and its Rhetoric: 3. Private arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome; 4. Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy; 5. Redress for sexual offences in Athenian and Roman law; 6. The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy; 7. Arguing behind closed doors; Part III. Playing on the Boundaries of the Law: 8. Entrapment and framing; Appendices: 1. Official arbitration in the Attic orators; 2. Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens; 3. Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping and slave-stealing in Athens and Rome; 4. Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa; 5. Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy; 6. Ambiguous arbitri in Roman comedy; 7. Moikhos and moikheia.

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• Authors: Adele C. Scafuro, Adele C. (Brown University Scafuro, Scafuro Adele C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780521443838
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44383-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights