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The birth of nomos
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This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to ...
This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to give us a new and complete understanding of nomos and its foundational place in the Western legal tradition.
Details
- Creator
- Thanos Zartaloudis
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xli, 485 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 1474442005, 9781474442022, 9781474442008, 9781474459808, 1474459803, 1474442021
- OCLC
- on1312727185, on1250346310
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- note: pt. ONE HOMERIC NOMOS -- One. Nomos of Feasts and `Sacrifices' -- 1. Distribution-sharing -- 2. Feasts -- 3. `Sacrifice' -- 4. Meat -- 5. Commensality -- 6. Sympotic distribution-sharing -- 7. distributive ethos? -- Two. Nomos Moiregenes -- Moira -- Klothology: weaving a life -- Apportionment -- Binding -- Weighing the scales -- Dunamis -- One cannot go permanently without sleep -- 8. Meropes anthropoi -- Three. Nomos of the Land -- Nemo-land -- Mycenaean land-'holding' -- Homeric land-'holding' -- Kleros -- Apoikia -- Oikos -- Temenos -- word that wasn't there -- Four. Pastoral Nomos -- Pastoral oikonomia -- Homeric shepherds -- Pastoral ethos -- Nemein -- Nomos -- Nomios -- nomad nomos -- Five. Nemesis -- Indignation -- Visibilities -- Aidos -- Huperdikon Nemesin -- pt. TWO POST-HOMERIC NOMOS -- Six. Nomos of the Post-Homeric Poets -- Hesiod's cosmonomy -- Hesiodic nomos -- Alcman, Alcaeus, Archilochus and Theognis -- Seven. Nomos of Heraclitus -- Kosmology -- Nemo -- Nomizein -- Fr. 114 -- Palinomia -- Eight. Nomos Basileus -- Pindar's nemein -- Nomos basileus -- Heracles -- Diomedes and Geryon -- Bia and dike -- Agamben's nomos basileus -- Holderlin's un-Heraclean nomos -- Cosmonomy -- 9. Neither a nomodicy, nor a nomomachia -- Nine. Nomos of the Tragedians -- Prologue -- 2.1. Aeschylus -- 2.2. Sophocles -- 2.3. Euripides -- Nomao/Nomon -- 4.1. 4.2. Sophocles 280 Antigone's nomos -- Burial -- Hupsipolis -- Antigonomia -- Autonomos -- 4.3. Ten. Nomos Mousikos -- Bios mousikos -- note on `ritual' mousike -- Δια μoυσασ -- Harmonia -- Mousikos nomos -- early law-givers' song