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Amnesty and Reconciliation in Late Fifth-Century Athens: The Rule of Law under Restored Democracy

Amnesty and Reconciliation in Late Fifth-Century Athens: The Rule of Law under Restored Democracy

Name: Amnesty and Reconciliation in Late Fifth-Century Athens: The Rule of Law under Restored Democracy
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781399506359
Price: 304.08 HKD
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Author: Christopher J. Joyce
ISBN: 9781399506359

By Christopher J. Joyce

Edinburgh University Press August 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781399506359
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication: August 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Re-evaluates the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement of 403 BCE, its historical causes and its legal legacy.

Interprets the reconciliation of 403 BCE in the light of the rule of law in Athens, offering a fresh reading of the terms and clauses of the treaty
Provides a new interpretation of how the amnesty was applied in the legal trials that followed
Allows for a new understanding of the Athenian reconciliation as the paradigm of amnesty agreements in the Classical and Hellenistic Ages
Analyses the causes of political division in Athens at the end of the 5th century and how Athenian democracy was resurrected according to legal principle

The Athenian Reconciliation of 403 BCE was the pinnacle of amnesty agreements in Greek antiquity. It guaranteed lasting peace in a political community torn apart by civil conflict, because it recognised that for society to cohere, vindictive action over crimes which predated the exchange of oaths was legally inadmissible.

Foreword and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Athenian Reconciliation in modern scholarship

2. Civil Strife at Athens, 404-3.

3. Oaths and Covenants

4. The legal scrutiny and the resurrection of the rule of law

5. The Amnesty Applied (I): The trials of Agoratus and Eratosthenes

6. The Amnesty Applied (II): The Trials of Callimachus and Socrates

7. The Athenian Reconciliation as the Paradigm for the Greek World in the Classical and Hellenistic Ages.

8. The Rule of Law Restored: The legacy of the Reconciliation

Conclusions

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