Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Author's note on terminology, transliteration, translation, and texts -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I PRE-TRIAL PLAYS -- 1 The staging of dispute settlement -- 1 Options of dispute settlement -- 2 Acting before witnesses -- 3 Arguing a case! law, fair play, and thepresentation of character -- Conclusions -- 2 Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest -- 1 Threatening lawsuits: a means to settlement in the orators -- 2 Initial stages16 -- 2 (a) Summons and arrest in Athens -- 2(b) Summons in Rome -- 2(c) Synthesis -- 3 Threatening lawsuits in new comedy -- 4 Threats of legal action against a rapist! adelphoe III 2 and 4 and IV 3 -- PART II: RECONCILIATION AND ITS RHETORIC -- 3 Arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome -- 1 Private arbitration in athens -- 1(a) Differences between arbitration and reconciliation in the orators: a traditional and untraditional view -- 1(b) The ideology of friendship -- 1(c) Criteria of arbitral assessmen -- 1(d) Conclusions -- 2 Roman arbitration -- 4 Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy -- 1 The arbitrations of epitrepontes and rudens -- 1(a) A comparison of procedure -- 1(b) A Greek or Roman scenario in Rudens? -- 2 Arbitral figures in roman comedy -- 2(a) Adelphoem II I -- 2(b) Phormio IV 3 -- 2(c) Phormio V 9 -- 2(d) Curculio V3, 679-86 -- 2(e) Curculio 686-729 -- 3 Reconciliation as the end of new comedy -- 4 Roman comedy and arbitration -- 5 Redress for sexual offenses in Athenian and Roman law -- 1 Sexual offenses in athenian law3 -- 1(a) Self-help remedies -- 1(b) Judicial remedies -- 1(c) The law and social practice -- 2 Sexual offenses in roman law -- 2(a) Self-help remedies -- 2(b) Iniuria -- 3 Synthesis: judicial and extra-judicial redress inathens and rome 6 The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy -- 1 Adultery scenarios -- 1(a) Self-help remedies -- 1(b) Adultery and fornication: the double standard for men and women -- 2 The resolution of rape in new comedy -- 2(a) Patterns of settlement: the "laws" of rape and seduction in New Comedy -- 2(b) Participants in inter-family meetings -- 2(c) Mental disposition and culpability in defenses for hubris and rape -- 3 New riffs on old melodies: dramatizing the resolution of rape and seduction -- 3 (a) Samia -- 3 (b) Truculentus IV 3 -- 4 Demythifying the "girl's tragedy" . tace obsecro,mea gnata! (hecyra 318) -- 7 Arguing behind closed doors -- 1 Disputes about epikleroi -- 1(a) The evidence of the orators -- 1(b) The comedies -- 2 Disputes about the dissolution of marriages -- 2 (a) The mechanics of divorce -- 2(b) Dramatic treatments -- 3 Conclusions -- PART III: PLAYING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAW -- 8 Entrapment and framing -- 1 Entrapment, framing, and the law -- 1(a) Enticing and framing moikhoi -- 1(b) A scenario of entrapment in [Dem.] 53 Nikosfratos -- 2 Scenarios of criminal entrapment and framing innew comedy -- 3 Moral entrapment in aspis -- 4 Confessional entrapment in adelphoe and epitrepontes -- 5 The failure of entrapment in the andria -- 5 (a) The argument of the play -- 5 (b) The cgnati vita' as testimony to the 'patris vita' -- 5 (c) The caequus pater': the rhetoric of indulgence -- 6 Conclusions -- APPENDICES -- 1 Official arbitration in the Attic orators -- (A) Evidence for the jurisdiction of official arbitrators in the orators -- (B) Representation of official arbitration in the orators -- (C) Verdicts -- (D) Evidence for the binding quality of official arbitration -- (E) The introduction of official arbitration -- 2 Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens (A) Lists of private arbitrations and reconciliations in the orators -- (B) Arbitration during trial -- (C) Successful private arbitrations and reconciliations -- (D) Initiating dikai as a manipulative strategy -- (E) Terminology of private arbitration in old comedy and tragedy -- (F) Terminology of private arbitration in agora I. 3244 = sokolowski 19 -- 3 Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping, and slave stealing in Athens and Rome -- 1 Athens -- 2 Rome -- 4 Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa -- 1 Rudens -- 1 (A) Preliminaries -- 1 (B) Offence and procedure -- 2 Persa -- 3 Conclusions -- 5 Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy -- A. Criteria for assessing the provenance of legal scenarios in roman comedy -- B. Table of threats presented in catalogue and addenda -- Addenda -- 1 Cat. III. 2: misgune fr. 279 k-t -- 2 Cat. III. 5, 7, 19 and ix . 4: tresviri in asin. 131-33, aul. 415-17, truc. 759-63, and amph. 155 -- 3 Cat. III. II : curc. V 2, 619-21, 625 -- 4 Cat. III. 14: two problems with poenulus III 5, 782-85 -- 5 Cat. III. 16, 17 -- VIII. 5 and 7 -- IX. 6: the concluding scenes of poen. and the "second trick -- 6 Cat. III. 21: adelphoe II 1, 193-95 -- 7 Cat. III. 21 and 22: adelphoeu II 1 and 2 -- 8 Cat. III. 23: hegio and sostrata in adelphoe III 2 and 4 -- 9 Cat. III. 24 and VIII. 8: eunuchus IV 7, "siege scene -- 10 Cat. III. 27: phormio v 8-9 -- 11 Cat. V. 1 and IX. 13: most, V 1 and hec. III 1 -- 12 Cat. VI. 5: phormio II 3, 403-06 -- 13 Cat. IX. 12: and. IV 5, 814-16 -- 6 Ambiguous arbitri in Roman Comedy -- 1 Plautine arbitri -- 1 (A) Technical or non-technical? -- 1 (B) Vidularia -- 2 Terentian arbitri -- 3 Arbiter, iudex, and vir bonus in roman comedy: a summary -- 7 Moikhos and moikheia -- 1 Moikhos as fornicator in technical and non-technical literary usage -- 2 The nomos moikheias in [dem.] Works cited -- General index -- Index locorum
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