The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens

Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000)
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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."--Jacket.

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