Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poine, by Hubert J. Treston
CONTENTS
POINE
BOOK I POINE IN HOMER
CHAPTER IV JUDICIAL ASPECT OF HOMICIDE IN EARLY GREECE
Historical Survivals of Clan Courts
The Shield of Achilles and the Royal Judges
Origin of Homicide Courts
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER V RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF HOMICIDE IN EARLY GREECE
Analysis of Early Greek Religion
Anthropomorphism and the Olympians
Achaean-Pelasgian Religious Fusions
The Nekuia of the Odyssey.
Religious Aspect of Homicide
The Erinnyes and Purgation
The Homeric and the Tragic Erinnys
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
Section I
Section II
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER II THE PELASGIAN SYSTEM
Proofs from the Text of Homer
Voluntary and Involuntary Homicide
Justifiable and Unjustifiable Homicide
Collectivity in Vengeance
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER III THE ACHAEAN SYSTEM
FOOTNOTES
BOOK II FROM HOMER TO DRACON
CHAPTER I SOCIAL AND LEGAL TRANSITIONS
Section I
Section II
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER II THE DRACONIAN CODE
Homicide Laws in Plato and Demosthenes
Involuntary Homicide
Justifiable and Justifiably Accidental Homicide
Wilful Murder
Private Settlement for Wilful Murder
Refusal of Burial to Executed Murderers
Plotting and Contriving Murder
State Execution of Death Penalty
Parricide and Kin-slaying
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER III ATTIC HOMICIDE-COURTS
The Question of a γραφὴ φόνου
Origin and Evolution of Attic Homicide Courts
Dracon and the Ephetae
The Exegetae and the Number Fifty-one
Solon and the Areopagus
FOOTNOTES
BOOK III POINE IN ATTIC TRAGEDY
CHAPTER I AESCHYLUS
The ‘Agamemnon.’
The ‘Choephoroe’
The ‘Eumenides’
The ‘Suppliants’ and the ‘Seven against Thebes’
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER II SOPHOCLES
The ‘Electra’
The ‘King Oedipus’
The ‘Oedipus at Colonus’
The ‘Antigone’
The ‘Ajax’
The ‘Trachinian Maidens’
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER III EURIPIDES
The ‘Electra’
The ‘Orestes’
The ‘Iphigenia in Aulide’ and ‘Iphigenia in Tauris’
The ‘Phoenician Maidens’ and the ‘Suppliants’
The ‘Mad Hercules’
The ‘Children of Hercules’
The ‘Medea’
The ‘Hippolytus’
The ‘Ion’
The ‘Andromache’
The ‘Hecuba’
The ‘Bacchae’
The ‘Alcestis’
The ‘Troades’
The ‘Helen’
FOOTNOTES
General Conclusion
INDEX
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