Aeschylus\u27 Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C, the Oresteia is a set of three connected tragedies, of which the final one, the Eumenides, concludes with the mythical first trial of a man for homicide, the trial of Orestes, the character who gives the trilogy its name. Orestes is tried for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra, a murder undertaken at the instigation of the god Apollo in retali...
The aim of the thesis is to understand popular attitudes in Athens to judicial activity in the late ...
The importance of determining the exact origin of the trial of Orestes before the Areopagus at the e...
4 pagesThe term “crime” covers a broad spectrum of illegal behavior, like murder, doing drugs, thef...
This article offers a substantial new interpretation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, one of the most importa...
Orestes’ trial is staged in Aeschylus’s play The Eumenides. One may even say that this trial occupie...
This paper investigates appeals to law in Euripides’ Medea, dramatic elements which seem to point to...
Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosoph...
Die Verknüpfung zwischen Gericht und antikem Drama entstand, weil das Publikum den gerichtlichen Ago...
Trial by jury is a constitutionally guaranteed right, and the concept of being judged by one’s peers...
From performing art, Euripides’ theatre very soon becomes a piece of collection, whose preservation,...
After a brief overview of the Law and Literature movement, this article suggests possible convergenc...
Homicide, Wounding, and Battery in the Fourth-Century Attic Orators addresses the law and rhetoric o...
Praca sklada się z czterech części: wstępu, szczegółowego streszczenia "Orestei", jej analizy oraz z...
This research closely examines the ancient Greek myth of Orestes, the boy who murdered his mother to...
Practitioners of law and literature, a newly fashionable area of legal scholarship, are rarely con...
The aim of the thesis is to understand popular attitudes in Athens to judicial activity in the late ...
The importance of determining the exact origin of the trial of Orestes before the Areopagus at the e...
4 pagesThe term “crime” covers a broad spectrum of illegal behavior, like murder, doing drugs, thef...
This article offers a substantial new interpretation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, one of the most importa...
Orestes’ trial is staged in Aeschylus’s play The Eumenides. One may even say that this trial occupie...
This paper investigates appeals to law in Euripides’ Medea, dramatic elements which seem to point to...
Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosoph...
Die Verknüpfung zwischen Gericht und antikem Drama entstand, weil das Publikum den gerichtlichen Ago...
Trial by jury is a constitutionally guaranteed right, and the concept of being judged by one’s peers...
From performing art, Euripides’ theatre very soon becomes a piece of collection, whose preservation,...
After a brief overview of the Law and Literature movement, this article suggests possible convergenc...
Homicide, Wounding, and Battery in the Fourth-Century Attic Orators addresses the law and rhetoric o...
Praca sklada się z czterech części: wstępu, szczegółowego streszczenia "Orestei", jej analizy oraz z...
This research closely examines the ancient Greek myth of Orestes, the boy who murdered his mother to...
Practitioners of law and literature, a newly fashionable area of legal scholarship, are rarely con...
The aim of the thesis is to understand popular attitudes in Athens to judicial activity in the late ...
The importance of determining the exact origin of the trial of Orestes before the Areopagus at the e...
4 pagesThe term “crime” covers a broad spectrum of illegal behavior, like murder, doing drugs, thef...