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Asklepios at Athens : epigraphic and prosopographic essays on the Athenian healing cults
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ISBN: 9050630685 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Gieben

City states in classical antiquity and medieval Italy : Athens and Rome, Florence and Venice
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ISBN: 3515058737 9783515058735 Year: 1991 Publisher: Stuttgart : F. Steiner,

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This comprehensive yet suggestive book offers innovative answers to familiar questions, as in the articles of David Whitehead and Erich Gruen on the nature and power of the citizen body. City-States also breaks new ground in its persuasive documentation of the ways in which seemingly disparate disciplines may profitably share methods and data Athens and Rome, Florence and Venice--the best known city-states in European history--have given Western culture a wealthy inheritance. Many of our basic notions about the nature and organization of towns come from realities born in antiquity and brought to fruition in the Middle Ages. While ancient city-states and medieval "communes" have had great importance for modern culture, much about the history of these institutions is still paradoxical and difficult to understand. The contributors to City-States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy offer valuable insights into these problems. This volume presents a parallel reading of the history and analysis of the development, structures, and conflicts of both sets of cities, using insights gained from one to illuminate the other

Law, sexuality, and society : the enforcement of morals in classical Athens
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ISBN: 0521374472 9780521374477 9780511597381 9780521466424 0521466423 051159738X Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Centering on the examination of the social and legal context of adultery, homosexuality, impiety, and the public-private dichotomy in Athenian society, this book attempts to examine the problems of social control and the regulation of sexuality in a way that will be of interest to a broad readership. It uses a comparative approach to show how the examination of such issues can deepen our understanding of classical Athens, particularly in regard to the role of law in society. Further, it argues that this historical investigation can, in turn, enrich our general appreciation of the relation of social and legal norms, and the roles they play in regulating complex social practices, such as those associated with sexuality, morals and the family.

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