Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity
Release date:	February 2021
Authors:	Konstantinos Kapparis
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-4672-3
Categories:	Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law
LSN:	1-4744-4672-8
Barcode:	9781474446723

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!