Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed, slight staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Berieben, leichte Anschmutzung auf Fu�chnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: I. From Homer to the mid-fourth century -- 1. Punishment in Homer -- 2. Anxieties and Surrogates -- 3. Crime-Specific Punishments -- 4. Historical Practice and Controversy -- II. Plato's Penology and Penal Code -- 5. Plato's Medical Penology -- 6. The Penology of Plato's Myths -- 7. The Structure of Magnesia -- 8. Homicide -- 9. Wounding -- 10. Assault -- 11. Theft -- 12. Impeity -- 13. Military Offences -- 14. Offences in Court -- 15. Class Distinctions in Plato's Penal Code -- 16. Summary and Assessment. - Few ancient Greeks questioned the traditional orthodoxy that punishment ought to be primarily retributive. The great exception was Plato. Building on certain insights of Socrates and Protagoras, he advocated a strictly reformative penology, cast in medical terms and designed to �cure� the offender�s mental state. This book first traces the development of Greek ideas and controversies about punishment from Homer to Plato. It then demonstrates in detail how in his Laws Plato attempts to give concrete expression to his radical new penology by in effect rewriting the Athenian penal code. The ancient problem of the purpose of punishment is still of relevance to contemporary society. This exposition of Plato�s instructive and important attempt to solve it is therefore written with the needs of non-specialists very much in mind. The complex material is lucidly set out, and key Greek terms are transliterated and explained. - Trevor J. Saunders is Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 9780198149606