Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance

About this eBook

Author

Treston, Hubert Joseph, 1888-1959

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Co.,1923.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

KL: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica

Subject

Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69344

Release Date

November 13, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.POINE — BOOK I POINE IN HOMER — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION — Section I — Section II — FOOTNOTES
5. 5.CHAPTER II THE PELASGIAN SYSTEM — Proofs from the Text of Homer — Voluntary and Involuntary Homicide — Justifiable and Unjustifiable Homicide — Collectivity in Vengeance — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.CHAPTER III THE ACHAEAN SYSTEM — FOOTNOTES
7. 7.CHAPTER IV JUDICIAL ASPECT OF HOMICIDE IN EARLY GREECE — Historical Survivals of Clan Courts — The Shield of Achilles and the Royal Judges — Origin of Homicide Courts — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CHAPTER V RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF HOMICIDE IN EARLY GREECE — Analysis of Early Greek Religion — Anthropomorphism and the Olympians — Achaean-Pelasgian Religious Fusions — The Nekuia of the Odyssey . — Religious Aspect of Homicide — The Erinnyes and Purgation — The Homeric and the Tragic Erinnys — FOOTNOTES
9. 9.BOOK II FROM HOMER TO DRACON — CHAPTER I SOCIAL AND LEGAL TRANSITIONS — Section I — Section II — FOOTNOTES
10. 10.CHAPTER II THE DRACONIAN CODE — Homicide Laws in Plato and Demosthenes — Involuntary Homicide — Justifiable and Justifiably Accidental Homicide — Wilful Murder — Private Settlement for Wilful Murder — Refusal of Burial to Executed Murderers — Plotting and Contriving Murder — State Execution of Death Penalty — Parricide and Kin-slaying — FOOTNOTES
11. 11.CHAPTER III ATTIC HOMICIDE-COURTS — The Question of a γραφὴ φόνου — Origin and Evolution of Attic Homicide Courts — Dracon and the Ephetae — The Exegetae and the Number Fifty-one — Solon and the Areopagus — FOOTNOTES
12. 12.BOOK III POINE IN ATTIC TRAGEDY — CHAPTER I AESCHYLUS — The ‘Agamemnon.’ — The ‘Choephoroe’ — The ‘Eumenides’ — The ‘Suppliants’ and the ‘Seven against Thebes’ — FOOTNOTES
13. 13.CHAPTER II SOPHOCLES — The ‘Electra’ — The ‘King Oedipus’ — The ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ — The ‘Antigone’ — The ‘Ajax’ — The ‘Trachinian Maidens’ — FOOTNOTES
14. 14.CHAPTER III EURIPIDES — The ‘Electra’ — The ‘Orestes’ — The ‘Iphigenia in Aulide’ and ‘Iphigenia in Tauris’ — The ‘Phoenician Maidens’ and the ‘Suppliants’ — The ‘Mad Hercules’ — The ‘Children of Hercules’ — The ‘Medea’ — The ‘Hippolytus’ — The ‘Ion’ — The ‘Andromache’ — The ‘Hecuba’ — The ‘Bacchae’ — The ‘Alcestis’ — The ‘Troades’ — The ‘Helen’ — FOOTNOTES
15. 15.General Conclusion
16. 16.INDEX — I — II — III — IV

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