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02932aam a2200421Mi 4500 001 9B8CF22CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 210403t20212021gw b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3515129146 020 $a 9783515129145 035 $a (OCoLC)1244802170 040 $a OHX $b eng $e rda $c OHX $d IAY $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d EUM $d VA@ $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a KL4115.A75 $b P37 2021 072 7 $a DF $2 lcco 072 7 $a BF $2 lcco 072 7 $a KL $2 lcco 100 1 $a Papakonstantinou, Zinon. $e author. 245 10 $a Cursing for justice : $b magic, disputes, and the lawcourts in classical Athens / $c Zinon Papakonstantinou. 264 1 $a Stuttgart : $b Franz Steiner Verlag, $c [2021] 300 $a 167 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne ; $v Band 14 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index. 520 $a "This book is a comprehensive exploration of curse tablets in the Athenian legal domain. Drawing on sociological and critical theory, Zinon Papakonstantinou outlines a framework for the interaction between curse tablets and legalities, namely in both formal and informal manifestations of the legal sphere, in Classical Athens. By delving into the complex world of Athenian daily life and disputes, Papakonstantinou argues that Athenians involved in litigation deployed binding curses as polysemic acts of conflict management and information control. They also used them as transgressive transcripts that went beyond normative or legislative taxonomies. Further, Papakonstantinou demonstrates how Athenians acting in a self-assessing and long-term agential mode employed curse tablets strategically to advance their individual agenda and position in Athenian society. As a result, Athenian legal curse tablets point to a conceptually malleable perception of "law" and "litigation" driven by utility and self-interest that clashed with claims to justice, the pursuit of the rule of law, and attitudes towards jurors articulated by litigants in Athenian forensic orations" -- $c Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Justice, Administration of $z Athens $z Athens $x History. 650 0 $a Social conflict $z Athens $z Athens $x History. 650 0 $a Blessing and cursing $z Athens $z Athens $x History. 651 0 $a Athens (Greece) 650 7 $a Blessing and cursing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834275 650 7 $a Justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985154 650 7 $a Social conflict. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122378 651 7 $a Greece $z Athens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204474 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $z 9783515129190 $i e-book version 830 0 $a Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne ; $v Bd.14. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015513.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9B8CF22CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search