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ДА ЛИ ЈЕ ДОЗВОЉЕНО УБИТИ?
PERMISSIBLE KILLING IN ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

Author(s): Sanja M. Gligić
Subject(s): History of Law, Ancient World, Victimology
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Ancient Athenian Law; Justified killing; Statute; Adultery; Rape;

Summary/Abstract: There were circumstances under which it was permissible to kill another human being in the ancient Athenian democracy. Moreover, the killing itself was governed by a number of statutes. As citations to, and exegesis of, the applicable statutes had a role of means of evidence in the Athenian litigation; the speeches of the Attic orators contained numerous citations of individual statutes. As a result, some of these statutes survived until today as fractions of the preserved oratorical pieces – such as the Speech against Eratosthenes, coming under a name of Lysias.

  • Issue Year: 56/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 262-271
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian