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This volume brings together scholars working on the multifaceted
and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient
Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first
millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative
perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and
regions - from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and
Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman empire
and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The
contributors to this volume adopt various contemporary theories,
demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the
concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient
societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging.
Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood
descent; by privileged or exclusive access to resources or
participation in communal decision-making; by a sense of group
belonging - such identifications were also open to discursive
redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well
as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees;
citizenship could be bought or faked, or even deprived. By casting
light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of
antiquity, this volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion
of citizenship and contribute to an on-going and relevant
discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging,
comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of
citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean
world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history
interested in taking a comparative approach.
This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and
social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators
and examines how these features affected and were represented and
utilised in forensic rhetoric. The socially transgressive nature of
the crime in Athens resulted in homicide receiving a distinctive
treatment in Athenian law, where it was 'set apart' from other
crimes in a number of ways, including the courts in which it was
tried, the procedures involved, and the fact that uniquely these
laws were attributed to Drakon as mytho-historical lawgiver.
Plastow explores how four distinctive features of homicide
procedure and law at Athens played out in rhetoric: ideology,
pollution, relevance, and the connected issues of motive and
intent. Through exploration of these rhetorical themes, the volume
also provides insight into the popular perceptions of homicide
amongst the Athenians, since the orators' speeches make extensive
use of persuasive techniques that tap into the deeply held beliefs
and ideologies of the jury members. A secondary aim is to explore
the effects of the physical context of delivery on the rhetoric of
homicide: the courtroom spaces themselves, whether homicide courts
or popular courts, with the variable ideologies that their
locations and physical attributes provoked, as well as the aspects
of ritual that would have been performed physically during a
homicide trial. Homicide in the Attic Orators offers insight into
this complex subject, and is of interest to anyone with an interest
in Athenian law, rhetoric, and society.
This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and
social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators
and examines how these features affected and were represented and
utilised in forensic rhetoric. The socially transgressive nature of
the crime in Athens resulted in homicide receiving a distinctive
treatment in Athenian law, where it was 'set apart' from other
crimes in a number of ways, including the courts in which it was
tried, the procedures involved, and the fact that uniquely these
laws were attributed to Drakon as mytho-historical lawgiver.
Plastow explores how four distinctive features of homicide
procedure and law at Athens played out in rhetoric: ideology,
pollution, relevance, and the connected issues of motive and
intent. Through exploration of these rhetorical themes, the volume
also provides insight into the popular perceptions of homicide
amongst the Athenians, since the orators' speeches make extensive
use of persuasive techniques that tap into the deeply held beliefs
and ideologies of the jury members. A secondary aim is to explore
the effects of the physical context of delivery on the rhetoric of
homicide: the courtroom spaces themselves, whether homicide courts
or popular courts, with the variable ideologies that their
locations and physical attributes provoked, as well as the aspects
of ritual that would have been performed physically during a
homicide trial. Homicide in the Attic Orators offers insight into
this complex subject, and is of interest to anyone with an interest
in Athenian law, rhetoric, and society.
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