Forensic Stage Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy

Name: Forensic Stage Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
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ISBN: 9780521607070

ISBN-10: 0521607078

ISBN-13: 9780521607070

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adele C. Scafuro

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Book details

List price: $59.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

ADELE C. SCAFURO is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University.



Introduction



Pre-Trial Plays



The staging of dispute settlement



Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest



Reconciliation and its Rhetoric



Private arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome



Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy



Redress for sexual offences in Athenian and Roman law



The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy



Arguing behind closed doors



Playing on the Boundaries of the Law



Entrapment and framing


Appendices



Official arbitration in the Attic orators



Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens



Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping and slave-stealing in Athens and Rome



Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa



Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy



Ambiguous arbitri in Roman comedy



Moikhos and moikheia