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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Studies in the History of International Law Ser |
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Studies in the History of International Law Ser
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Intro; Contents; Foreword (Lesaffer); Preliminary Considerations; 1. Editions of Reference Works; 2. Translations; 3. Transliterations; 4. Chronological References; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Maps; Figures; Maps; Introduction; 1. Between Ares and Athena; 2. Between Custom and Convenience: Rules and Pragmatics; 3. Toward International Law in the Ancient World: Practices and Contexts; 4. Inhumane Acts, Human Words: Analyzing the Restrictive Discourse of War; Part 1. The Concepts |
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Chapter 1. Normativity, Hegemony, and Democratic Performance: The Case of Classical Athens1. International Normativity, Subordination, and Political Imposition in the Ancient World; 2. Justice, Law, Laws, and Decrees: The Issue of Terminology; 3. Nomothesia: The Act of Legislating; 4. Dramatic Competitions and Athenian Festivals; 5. Justice as Spectacle in Athens: Judicial praxis; 6. The Assembly, the Theater, and the Courts: Performative Activities of Democracy; Summation: Democracy as Performative Ritual; Chapter 2. Greek poleis and International Subjectivity |
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1. Toward an Archaeology of the Subject: Did Fictional Entities Have a Legal Personality in the Greek World?1.1. Subjects as an Object of Study: A Modern Concept; 1.2. Groups and Associations in Athenian Law; 1.3. The polis as State and Its Legal Representations; 2. The Role of the polis in the Conclusion of Treaties during the Peloponnesian War; 2.1. The Classical Greek Treaties; 2.2. Three Examples as Case Studies; 2.2.1. The Treaties of Athens with Rhegium and Leontinoi; 2.2.2. The Quadripartite Treaty of Athens with Argos, Mantineia and Elis |
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2.2.3. The Treaties between Sparta and the Achaemenid EmpireSummation: International Subjectivity in Ruins; Part 2. The Rules; Chapter 3. The Outbreak of War and Its Limits in Inter-polis Law; 1. The Rhetoric of the Use of Armed Force in the Greek World; 2. The Vocabulary of the Grounds: The Spoken and the Unspoken in Thucydides; 3. Considerations on Guilt, Responsibility, Motivation and Encouragement: Helen's Case; 4. Exoneration from Responsibility for the Attack: The Adversary's Fault; 5. A 'Legal' Rhetoric of Self-Defense?; Summation: Restraining the Use of Armed Force |
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Chapter 4. The Conduct of War and Its Limits in Inter-polis Law1. Greek Warfare between Military Necessity and Limitation; 2. The Legal Matrix: The Foundations of "Common," "Universal," Inter-polis, and Panhellenic Law; 3. Geneva in Greece: The nomos of the Greeks with Respect to the Protection of Victims and Practices in Wartime; 3.1. Protecting Envoys; 3.2. Protecting Civilians; 3.3. Protecting Temples and Religious Facilities and Personnel; 3.4. Protecting Captured Enemies; 3.5. Protecting the Sick and Wounded Combatants and Dead Bodies |
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3.6. Protecting Suppliants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers |
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Print version record |
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War (Greek law) -- History
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War (International law)
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Humanitarian law.
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Peace treaties.
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Humanitarian law.
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Peace treaties.
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Politics and government.
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War (Greek law)
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War (International law)
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Athens (Greece) -- History.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece.
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Greece -- Athens.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004363823 |
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9004363823 |
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