Title: Law and the Lawgiver in the Athenian Democracy
Abstract: Abstract In the Thucydidean Funeral Speech, Pericles produces his famous boast about the Athenians’ way of life and their relationship to the laws, and claims as characteristic of the democracy a relative freedom in public and private life (Thuc. 2. 37-9). This lack of supervision contrasts with the rigid discipline of Sparta, and is seen partly in terms of the role of the laws: their public life is conducted freely, as is their everyday life (37. 2); they do not exercise a jealous surveillance over each other … ‘Yet this ease in our private relations does not make us lawless in public matters
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-12-29
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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