Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeanceTreston, Hubert Joseph
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Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance
Treston, Hubert Joseph
Criminal law (Greek law); Greece -- Civilization; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Homicide (Greek law); Vendetta
The Attic Homicide Courts: Attic legends concerning origin of
courts for homicide: the accounts of Pollux, of Aristotle, of
Demosthenes: question of γραφὴ φόνου: Plato’s _Euthyphro_:
author’s theory of the origin of Attic courts for homicide:
Dracon and the Ephetae: Solon and the Areopagus: the Exegetae 243-275
BOOK III
POINE IN ATTIC TRAGEDY
CHAPTER I
Aeschylus: _Agamemnon_, _Choephoroe_, _Eumenides_, _Suppliants_
and _Seven against Thebes_ 276-302
CHAPTER II
Sophocles: _Electra_, _King Oedipus_, _Oedipus at Colonus_,
_Antigone_, _Ajax_ and _Trachinian Maidens_ 303-331
CHAPTER III
Euripides: _Electra_, _Orestes_, _Iphigenia at Aulis_ and
_Iphigenia in Tauris_, _Phoenician Maidens_ and _Suppliants_,
_Mad Hercules_, _Heracleidae_, _Medea_, _Hippolytus_, _Ion_,
_Andromache_, _Hecuba_, _Bacchae_, _Alcestis_, _Troades_ and
_Helen_ 332-422
CONCLUSION 422-424
INDEX 425-427
POINE
BOOK I
POINE IN HOMER
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
SECTION I.: The general principles of blood-vengeance, analysed
and illustrated: customs of modern races in the Balkans, in
the Mediterranean area, and in South America: customs of the
ancient Germans, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Welsh: Burgundian,
Norman, Israelite systems.
SECTION II.: Homeric Society; Views of Loaf and Ridgeway:
feudal militarism and tribalism.
SECTION I
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