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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 betwee
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Social Memory, Social Knowledge
Social Memory, Social Knowledge
CHAPTER FOUR Punishment and Its Tragic Problems
CHAPTER FOUR Punishment and Its Tragic Problems
PART TWO: THE PROCESS OF PUNISHING
PART TWO: THE PROCESS OF PUNISHING
CHAPTER FIVE Initiation, Part One
CHAPTER FIVE Initiation, Part One
Initiation: Metics, Proxenoi, and Xenoi
Initiation: Metics, Proxenoi, and Xenoi
CHAPTER SIX Initiation, Part Two
CHAPTER SIX Initiation, Part Two
The Male Citizen Prosecutor
The Male Citizen Prosecutor
Back to the Bees and Wasps Again
Back to the Bees and Wasps Again
The Household: Women and Men Together
The Household: Women and Men Together
CHAPTER SEVEN The Negotiation of Desert, Part One
CHAPTER SEVEN The Negotiation of Desert, Part One
The First Norm of Public Agency: Deserving to Punish and Dispelling Charges of Sycophancy
The First Norm of Public Agency: Deserving to Punish and Dispelling Charges of Sycophancy
CHAPTER EIGHT The Negotiation of Desert, Part Two
CHAPTER EIGHT The Negotiation of Desert, Part Two
The Second Norm of Public Agency: Using Social Memory and Law
The Second Norm of Public Agency: Using Social Memory and Law
The Rule of Judgment versus the Rule of Law
The Rule of Judgment versus the Rule of Law
The Rule of Law in Plato and Aristotle
The Rule of Law in Plato and Aristotle
The Third Norm of Public Agency: Shaping the Democratic Community
The Third Norm of Public Agency: Shaping the Democratic Community
War, Peace, and the Formalism of Punishment
War, Peace, and the Formalism of Punishment
The Details: Punishments and Their Executors
The Details: Punishments and Their Executors
Two Forms of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting
Two Forms of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting
The Symbolism of Remembering and Forgetting
The Symbolism of Remembering and Forgetting
War and Peace, the Body and Silence
War and Peace, the Body and Silence
Punishments of Reintegration
Punishments of Reintegration
Punishments that Redefine the "Whole" Community
Punishments that Redefine the "Whole" Community
PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONVERSATION
PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER TEN Plato's Paradigm Shifts
CHAPTER TEN Plato's Paradigm Shifts
Undoing the Athenian "Principle of the Public": The Republic
Undoing the Athenian "Principle of the Public": The Republic
The Just City and the Power of the Symbol
The Just City and the Power of the Symbol
The Incurables and the Necessity for Anger/Orge in the Just City of the Laws
The Incurables and the Necessity for Anger/Orge in the Just City of the Laws
CHAPTER ELEVEN Aristotle's Compromises
CHAPTER ELEVEN Aristotle's Compromises
EPILOGUE: The Reform of Prometheus and Promethean Rebellion
EPILOGUE: The Reform of Prometheus and Promethean Rebellion
A. The Number of Magistrates in Athens
A. The Number of Magistrates in Athens
B. The Nature and Scope of Arbitration in Athens
B. The Nature and Scope of Arbitration in Athens
C. The Relative Frequency of Penal Words within Each Orator
C. The Relative Frequency of Penal Words within Each Orator
D. Further Argument about the Decree of Cannonus
D. Further Argument about the Decree of Cannonus
E. Catalog of Cases of Punishing (or Attempts at Punishing) in Tragedy
E. Catalog of Cases of Punishing (or Attempts at Punishing) in Tragedy
The World of Prometheus
：The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens
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