Actions for The forensic stage : settling disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

The forensic stage : settling disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy / Adele C. Scafuro

Author
Scafuro, Adele C.
Published
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 512 pages)
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Language Note
English.
Contents
1. The staging of dispute settlement -- 2. Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest -- 3. Arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome -- 4. Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy -- 5. Redress for sexual offenses in Athenian and Roman law -- 6. The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy -- 7. Arguing behind closed doors -- 8. Entrapment and framing -- App. 1. Official arbitration in the Attic orators -- App. 2. Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens -- App. 3. Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping, and slave stealing in Athens and Rome -- App. 4. Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa -- App. 5. Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy.
Summary
Graeco-Roman New Comedy has traditionally provided a source for legal historians examining the language and operation of law both in Athens in the fourth century and in Rome in the second century BC. Adele Scafuro here provides the first comprehensive treatment in English of one crucial area of this vast field, namely, the way legal disputes are settled out of court in Athens, both on and off the comic stage. Beginning with a close examination of pre-trial scenarios in the Attic orators and looking for comparable ones in pre-classical Roman law, Dr Scafuro then turns to the plays of Greek New Comedy and their adaptations by Plautus and Terence. There she identifies similar scenarios especially in disputes concerning sexual violations, the marriages of heiresses, and divorces. She shows how the recognition of legal procedures aids interpretation of New Comedy texts.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
0511004060 (electronic bk.)
9780511004063 (electronic bk.)
9780511583001
0511583001
0521607078
9780521607070
0521443830 (hardback)
9780521443838 (hardback)
9780521607070 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-498) and indexes.
View MARC record | catkey: 43251182