Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Author's note on terminology, transliteration, translation, and texts
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I PRE-TRIAL PLAYS
- PART II RECONCILIATION AND ITS RHETORIC
- PART III PLAYING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAW
- APPENDICES
- 1 Official arbitration in the Attic orators
- 2 Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens
- 3 Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping, and slave stealing in Athens and Rome
- 4 Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa
- 5 Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
- 6 Ambiguous arbitri in Roman Comedy
- 7 Moikhos and moikheia
- Works cited
- General index
- Index locorum
5 - Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Author's note on terminology, transliteration, translation, and texts
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I PRE-TRIAL PLAYS
- PART II RECONCILIATION AND ITS RHETORIC
- PART III PLAYING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAW
- APPENDICES
- 1 Official arbitration in the Attic orators
- 2 Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens
- 3 Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping, and slave stealing in Athens and Rome
- 4 Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa
- 5 Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
- 6 Ambiguous arbitri in Roman Comedy
- 7 Moikhos and moikheia
- Works cited
- General index
- Index locorum
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- The Forensic StageSettling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy, pp. 424 - 467Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997