Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens: Rhetoric, Relevance and the Rule of Law

ISBN-13: 9780367881757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str.

Vasileios Adamidis

Opis

There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in Athens and specifically the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of A

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Introduction

1. The Archaic Origins of Character Evidence: From Homer to Classical Athens

2. Incentives for Wide Use of Character Evidence in the Athenian Legal System

3. Greek Ideas of ‘Character’

4. Methods of Providing Evidence from Character in Athenian Courts

5. Greek Perceptions of ‘Personality’ Applied in the Athenian Courts

6. Purposes of Character Evidence in the Courts of Athens – Predominance of Law or Rhetoric?

Conclusions

O autorze

Vasileios Adamidis is a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University. He holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Exeter and a Master’s Degree in International Law with International Relations from the University of Kent. With a keen interest in the theory, history and philosophy of law and its relation with politics, sociology and psychology, Vasileios is a proponent of the interconnection of the currently unduly fragmented social sciences.