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| greek
and roman punishment |
Date:
Mon, 1 Mar 1993
From:
Dan Tompkins
Subject:
punishment (Gk.)
A
student, majoring in criminal justice (popular field these days),
wants to do a paper on Greek, and perhaps Roman, punishment. I've
got some material lying around, but would be interested to know if
there is anything on this topic written for non-specialists.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
Gary Brower
Subject:
Re: punishment
There
is a recent book out on Torture (I don't remember the exact title),
published by Routledge (I'm pretty sure). It has to do with the
torture of slaves to extract legal evidence. It may not be for the "non-specialist",
but there may be enough info in the notes to help your student.
Also, of course, there's Foucault's _Disipline and Punish_ which
might provide some interesting theoretical sidelights to a study of
ancient punishment.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
Jenny Roberts
Subject:
Re: punishment (Gk.)
The
book in question on torture published by Routledge is probably Page
duBois's Torture and Truth, 1991. It is wide-ranging and includes
chap- ter headings such as Plato's Truth, Democracy, Plato and
Heidegger, Criticism/Self-Criticism, and Women, the Body, and
Torture.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
RRowland
Subject:
Re: punishment (Gk.)
Part
II of Garnsey's *Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman
Empire* (1 970) consists of 3 chapters, Penalties and the treatment
of the accused; Hadrian and the evolution of the dual-penalty
system; the legal basis of the dual-penalty system. Despite the
presence of Greek & Latin (ut solebat illo tempore), I think it
should be accessible.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
David Page
Subject:
Re: punishment
Greek
social history is not my field at all but at York University
inToronto Canada in the History Dept of the Humanities Divison is to
be found Virginia Hunter who does wonderful stuff on punishment,
torture, policing etc. in Athens in the fifth and particularly
fourth century. You might look for her name. I know she is about to
publish a book on torture and punishment. It may have appeared
already. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
David Meadows
Subject: Re: punishment
On
Roman punishment, the best place by far to start is with Digest
48.19 (Alan Watson and crew have translated the whole thing, so it
is accessible). In fact, most of book 48 could be read with profit
as it gives a good sense of what the Romans considered to be
'crimes'. After that, one could always turn to Crook's -Law and Life
of Rome- pp 271-278. Depending on how deep one wanted to go, one
should also look at Garnsey's Social Status and Legal Privilege. If
further depth is reqested, see Rolf Rilinger's -Humiliores,
honestiores:zu einer soziale Dichotomie im Strafrecht der romischen
Kaiserzeit - (1988) and, more generally, Bernardo Santalucia
-Diritto e processo penale nell'antica Roma - (1989). The Digest is,
of course, the most important as it tends to avoid the voyeuristic
glee which seems to characterize modern works on punishment and
torture.
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
David Meadows
Subject:
greek punishment
As
promised/threatened, here are the paltry gleanings from my database
in regards to Greek punishment: Drapkin, Israel *Crime and
Punishment in the Ancient World* . Written by an MD it is not
technical at all and would be suitable for a non specialist who
really doesn't care about footnotes. It has sections on Rome,
Greece, Babylon, etc. Saunders, T.J. *Plato's Penal Code* Non vidi,
but its subtitle is: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek
Penology, so it does deal with the subject. Hope that helps
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
Dougal Blyth
Subject:
Re: greek punishment
There
is also an older book (late 70s?) by ummmm, Mary MacKenzie (?)
called *Plato on Punishment* (?), in case you cannot find Saunders
(who no doubt lists it). D.M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens
(London 1978); and J.W. Jones, The Law and Legal Theory of the
Greeks (Oxford 1966), I think, both discuss punishment. There might
be something interesting too in T.C. Brickhouse and N.D. Smith,
Socrates on Trial, (Princeton, 1989).
Date:
Tue, 2 Mar 1993
From:
Cindy Smith
Subject: Re: greek punishment
There's
a book I ran across some time back called "An Illustrated
History of the Rod" by the Reverend William M. Cooper,
originally published around the turn of the century. The author in
his preface asserts that his book is intended for neither "the
prurient nor the prudish." Although he gives graphic details of
the use of the whip, the rod, the birch, the cane, and (horrifying)
the knout, from ancient Roman and Egyptian times to monasteries and
prisons, the military and schools, there are numerous instances in
the book in which he simply says that the details accompanied in his
sources could not possibly be published because "the
coarseness, the brutality, the refined cruelty often exercised, were
of a character so objectionable, that no good end could have been
accomplished by giving every circumstance and every detail narrated
in these old records...." At any rate, from his List of
Authorities, I found the following items of possible interest for
you: Boileau: Historia Flagellantium Brand's Popular Antiquities
Grose's Antiquities Plutarch's Works Stephen's Travels in Greece,
Russia, Turkey, and Poland Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the
Ancient Egyptians He also lists a number of periodicals, but I
couldn't tell from their titles whether any would be of use to you.
The book is published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1988. The ISBN is
1-85326-918-2. |
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