Punishment and Authority in the Athenian Forensic Discourse.
Authority is a presupposition built into the modern concept of punishment, both in terms of its moral or legal justification, as well as language. Its lack not only raises questions about the justice of harming an offender for an offence, but also about the felicity of labeling such an act as punish...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 43; pp. 179 - 198 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2024
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