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Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens (Record no. 3950)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781317168430
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 42.99
Form of issue BB
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Original cataloging agency 01
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code NHC
Source thema
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Subject category code LAZ
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code DB
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code GTC
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LNSH
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code HBLA1
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAZ
Source bic
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Subject category code DB
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code GTC
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LNSH
Source bic
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Subject category code HIS002000
Source bisac
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Subject category code 347.385066
Source bisac
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vasileios Adamidis
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens
Remainder of title Rhetoric, Relevance and the Rule of Law
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20161125
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 244 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory and practice devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. The widespread use of character evidence in every aspect of argumentation can be traced to the Greek ideas of ‘character’ and ‘personality’, the inductive method of reasoning, and the social, political and institutional structures of the ancient Greek polis. According to the author’s proposed method of interpretation, character evidence was not a means of diverting the jury’s attention away from the legal issues; instead, it was a constructive and relevant way of developing a legal argument.

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