Theonomies. Figures of Law in the Ancient Greek
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law, justice, right, orality, reading, writing, Greece.
Abstract
This work studies the different characterizations of the divine law in the Ancient Greek from Homer to Heraclitus. It analyzes the metonymic substitution of the divinity as the source for the law by the citizen’s nómos, and shows the symbolic violence and the active oblivion associated to this process of political foundation from the 5th century. Finally it rebuilds the oral frame’s axiology of the old theonomies and emphasizes the role of writing in the refiguration of the Greek juridical field during the classic period.Downloads
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Aranzueque G. (2011). Theonomies. Figures of Law in the Ancient Greek. Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica, 44, 137-164. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ASEM.2011.v44.36880
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