Law and Order in Ancient Athens

Lanni, Adriaan

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“…These requirements are demonstrated by the means through which conscripts were notified of their call-up: the monument of the eponymoi in the Athenian Agora was used as an information point for the purpose of spreading news throughout Attica concerning specific individuals 39 . Athenian roads helped the movement of people, which facilitated their personal, economic, religious or civic objectives; travellers could then act as a means to deliver news, gossip and knowledge to the rural community (Lewis 1996, 70; Lanni 2016, 142). We can infer from this that the state assumed that those who saw the notice would bring the report back to their respective demes.…”

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Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

McHugh

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The aim of this paper is to explore the physical connectivity of Attica by examining the realities of travel for Athenians wishing to engage with wider civic, social, economic and cultic institutions. This will be achieved by focussing upon the practicalities of short-, medium- and long-distance travel with the aim of differentiating aspects, modes and reasons for travel. This investigation will be realised through a series of computational scenarios created on the basis of a combination of ancient and nineteenth-century accounts of journeys through Attica along with the archaeological evidence of the Athenian road system. The results of this study shed light upon the constraints on, and opportunities for, participation in wider practices and the experience of travel for the individual traveller. Recent studies have shown there were many spaces in Attica that provided opportunities for Athenians to come together, to interact with each other and participate in civic, ritual and social institutions. The ultimate conclusions of this study will help to illustrate the fundamental connectivity and active engagement of the traveller with the Athenian landscape.

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Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

McHugh

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…As the 4th century progressed, Athens continued to be a remarkably stable and well-ordered society (Lanni, 2016). Perhaps, even more surprisingly, by the end of the 4th century, levels of prosperity matched those of the imperial 5th century (Ober, 2015b).…”

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“…In Athens, enforcement was generally highly decentralized. Private individuals were responsible for executing court judgments, and the state played a very limited role in enforcing judicial decisions (Lanni, 2006(Lanni, , 2016. 33 In the dikai emporikai, the state played a somewhat greater role.…”

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Tradeoffs of Inclusion: Development in Ancient Athens

Carugati

2019

Comparative Political Studies

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Inclusive institutions play an important role in development. But how do inclusive institutions emerge? Inclusion is always the product of a tradeoff. The existing literature focuses on the tradeoffs that yield an extension of the franchise, which requires costly power-sharing agreements. This article uses evidence from ancient Athens to show that meaningful forms of welfare-enhancing inclusion need not await the historically infrequent and high-stakes conditions that compel dominant elites to share power. In the 4th century BCE, the Athenians extended access to economic, social, and legal institutions to selected categories of non-citizens. They did not, however, extend the franchise. The Athenian tradeoff between political and other forms of inclusion was a response to the conflicting demands of social order and growth. While falling short of full political inclusion, the tradeoff was nonetheless conducive to political and economic development.

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“…However, these processes are themselves sites of contention. Law itself is used opportunistically and strategically by social, political, and legal actors (Caldwell, 2014;Conley and O'Barr, 1990;Dixit, 2011;Eder, 2005;Lanni, 2016;Nader, 1997;Nader and Todd, 1978;Pirie, 2013). The second of our above questions considers how similar conflict processes within societies may determine the dynamics of group-selection, limiting or encouraging the spread of prosocial institutions.…”

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Normative Conflict and Normative Change

Noblit¹,

Hadfield²

2023

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Human life is riddled with norms, many though not all of which are costly for individuals to adopt. Similarly, human ecological adaptation relies on costly-behaviors that often generate non-rivalrous and non-exclusionary benefits for group-members. Yet, in a dynamic world, innovations, environmental change, and information-revelation mean that what norms are beneficial for a group to adopt will inevitably change over time. However, multiple game-theoretic models studying the various mechanisms stabilizing normative behaviors have demonstrated that the stability of a norm does not depend on the benefits it confers. In turn, explanations of normative change have either relied on group-selective mechanisms to explain the presence of adaptive norms or have failed to identify conditions under which normative change occurs. We study normative change by means of costly-punishment and conflict resolution. We identify social differentiation in goals and punishment capacity as a key condition permitting normative change. While normative change that results from such social differentiation need not be group beneficial it will be beneficial to some subset of agents in the population. We additionally discuss how the intra-societal forces of normative conflict that we study might interact with group-selective forces and in turn determine the dynamics and outcomes of group-selection.

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Law and Order in Ancient Athens

Cited by 20 publications

References 179 publications

Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

Tradeoffs of Inclusion: Development in Ancient Athens

Normative Conflict and Normative Change

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