Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens

Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens
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Publisher : Intersectionality in Classical
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 1474446736
ISBN-13 : 9781474446730
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Book Synopsis Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens by : Konstantinos Kapparis

Download or read book Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens written by Konstantinos Kapparis and published by Intersectionality in Classical. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at existing fragmentary evidence largely from speeches, Kapparis reveals that it unambiguously suggests that free women were far from invisible in the legal system and the life of the polis. In the first part of the book Kapparis discusses the actual cases which included women as litigants, and the second part interprets these cases against the legal, social, economic and cultural background of classical Athens. In doing so he explores how factors such as gender, religion, women's empowerment and the rise of the Attic hetaira as a cultural icon intersected with these cases and ultimately influenced the construction of the speeches.


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