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
[10] See, _e.g._, Glotz, _loc. cit._ pp. 56-7: ‘Les Grecs ont toujours
senti et manifesté avec une vivacité extrême le bonheur de se venger.
Le cannibalisme qu’ils avaient pratiqué à l’époque de la sauvagerie
primitive, resta dans leur langue, s’il disparut de leurs mœurs.’ On p.
57 they are compared to Montenegrins and Arabs.
[11] Pp. 253-5.
[12] _Il._ xxiii. 85.
[13] _Il._ ix. 565.
[14] _Il._ xv. 334; _Il._ xxiv. 480.
[15] _Il._ xviii. 490-508.
[16] P. 516.
[17] See also _J.H.S._ xiii. 123-6 (1887). The view was first suggested
by Müncher (1829); see Glotz, p. 116.
[18] See _infra_, p. 37 ff.
[19] See _supra_, p. 21.
[20] _Op. cit._ p. 162 ff.
[21] _Op. cit._ p. 105.
[22] Pott, Corssen, Curtius, quoted by Glotz, _loc. cit._
[23] _E.g._ _Il._ ix. 131-2, ἀπερείσι’ ἄποινα.
[24] _Op. cit._ p. 110.
[25] _Op. cit._ p. 114.
[26] Compare the weeping of Hrethel, when his eldest son was killed
by his second son—and no vengeance was possible within the ‘family.’
_Beowulf_ (2464), quoted by F. Seebohm, p. 63.
[27] _Il._ viii. 500 ff.
[28] _Il._ ix. 378-386.
[29] _Il._ ix. 625.
[30] See _infra_, p. 43.
[31] See _Iliad_ xii. 422 and _supra_, p. 17.
[32] _Op. cit._ p. 115. ‘Rien ne prouve ici que la justice sociale
intervienne à quelque titre et de quelque manière que ce soit, ni pour
imposer ou conseiller un accommodement, ni pour indiquer le montant de la
composition.’
[33] _Il._ ix. 634 suggests an ‘arrangement’ by which either (_a_) exile
absolved the clan from punishment (_cf._ _Laws of King Edmund_, Seebohm,
p. 356) or (_b_) exile was accepted in lieu of the murderer’s _share_ of
the wergeld (_cf._ Canones Wallici, quoted by Seebohm, _op. cit._ p. 109).
[34] See Soph. _Antigone_, 456-7.
[35] _Il._ xviii. 490-508.
[36] _Op. cit._ pp. 473-4.
[37] See his Edition of _Iliad_, vol. ii. pp. 340-1.
[38] See Monro, _loc. cit._
[39] P. 516; _supra_, p. 25.
[40] P. 312.
[41] See also _J.H.S._ xiii. pp. 123-6 (1887), and Glotz, _op. cit._ p.
116.
[42] P. 516.
[43] 490-508.
[44] ἴστωρ, see _infra_, p. 43.
[45] _E.g._ Hofmeister, Leist, Dareste; see Glotz, _loc. cit._
[46] _Op. cit._ p. 116.
[47] P. 312 ff.
[48] For a fine illustration of Achaean ‘arbitration’ in homicide, see
Euripides, _Hecuba_ (1130 ff.).
[49] P. 258.
[50] Minoans or Achaeans.
[51] _Cf._ Glotz, _op. cit._ p. 122. Aussi celui, qui traite au nom d’une
famille lésée, doit avoir pleins pouvoirs d’agir au nom de tous ou en
référer au groupe qu’il représente.
[52] See _Das Attische Recht und Rechtsverfahren_, Einleitung, pp. iv. ff.
[53] That is, if he was proved to be innocent of the crime.
[54] See Leaf’s note in edition of _Iliad_ (1902), p. 611 ff.
[55] _Od._ xv. 388.
[56] _Od._ xv. 429.
[57] _Od._ xv. 452.
[58] _Il._ x. 378.
[59] _Il._ xxi. 41-80.
[60] _Il._ ix. 264.
[61] _Od._ iv. 525.
[62] See _supra_, p. 10; Seebohm, _op. cit._ p. 123 ff.
[63] _Ancient Law_, p. 313. See Leaf, edition of _Iliad_ (1902), p. 612.
[64] _Op. cit._ p. 119.
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