Edwin Carawan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1206668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Carawan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Carawan |
| SIGNATURE | CARAWAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eingegangene Bücher
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens
"Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped Athenian lawmaking. He also compares the judiciary of ancient Athens to that of the modern United States"
Decrees in Andocides' on the Mysteries and ‘Latent Fragments’ From Craterus
The manuscript of Andocides' speech On the Mysteries contains a series of documentary inserts culminating in the decrees of Patroclides (§§77–9), Tisamenus (§§83–4) and Demophantus (§§96–8). These decrees seem to fit their historical context and they are presented at length, with at least a few of the formalities that we would expect to find in the official record. Modern commentators have relied upon them as substantially genuine, allowing for t…
Documents in the Case
In Demosthenes’ speeches we find documentary versions of laws and decrees which were not included in the prepared text nor (apparently) in early versions for circulation. Recent work on manuscript stichometry suggests a pattern in what appear to be the earliest inserts. In Demosthenes 23 and 24, in cases against unlawful legislation, a significant set of documents was included in the line-count edition; these largely correspond to the paragegramm…
Court Reform, Klērōtēria , and Comic Testimony
In fourth-century Athens jurors were assigned to ten sections in the tribe (A-K), then selected for duty (or excluded from it) in a multi-stage lottery. Scholars have assumed that jurors were assigned to their sections randomly, by lottery among the whole tribe. This paper argues that the letter-sections originally represented a framework for regional balance. The procedure described in Ath. Pol. and illustrated by surviving artifacts evolved fro…
Political Obligation in Ancient Greece and the Modern World by Mogens Herman Hansen
202 PHOENIX adopted the language and institutions of the polis, including assemblies and officials with familiar titles such as tamias, grammateus, and epistates. Constantakopoulou concludes that there were assemblies “not exclusively composed by the citizens of the place” (230) and that these engaged in important decision-making processes that went beyond issuing honorary decrees and included resolving acute crises within communities. Intriguing…
The Athenian Amnesty And Reconstructing The Law
This volume explores the amnesty which ended the civil war at Athens in 403 BC. It presents a new interpretation of the Athenian Amnesty in its original setting, and in view of the subsequent reconstruction of laws and democratic institutions in Athens, while also drawing on perspectives from parallels in modern history.
Paragraphē and ‘Civil Suits’
Chapter 5 focuses on the one of the signal reforms of the restored democracy, the special plea to bar litigation, paragraphē. This adaptation is documented in Isokrates’ speech (18) for the defendant Against Kallimachos, in a dispute over money that was confiscated under the oligarchy. Initially such suits were barred from the courts and the parties were left to resolve their disputes in arbitration or by other summary decisions. This case comes …
Comparanda
Chapter 3 proposes a new interpretaion of the Reconciliation Agreement at Athens and the oath that concluded it, ‘not to recall wrong’, mē mnēsikakein. Comparable agreements are found in literary testimony and inscribed treaties going back well before the Athenian example of 403 and continuing for generations afterward. These agreements typically consist of covenants (synthēkai) defining legal remedies and setting specific limits on retribution, …
The Homicide Rule and the Case Against Agoratos
Chapter 6 takes up the case of Agoratos whose information had led to the deaths of prominent democrats opposed to the oligarchy. Lysias’ speech (13) for one of the prosecutors anticipates the claim that charges against informants are barred by the Reconciliation Agreement, but the speechwriter constructs an elaborate argument around that barrier, insisting that Agoratos was party to a conspiracy to overthrow the democracy. Homicide suits against …
The Evolving Agreement
This chapter focuses on the Aristotelian account of the Amnesty (Ath. Pol. 39) and events leading up to it, with the aim of reconciling that account with the contemporary evidence of Lysias and Xenophon. The two traditions taken together indicate an important adaptation. The original agreement was built around the partition of Attica, with Eleusis reserved as an enclave for the oligarchs who could not be safe under the covenants that applied at A…
A Brief History of the Problem
Chapter 2 is a history of the scholarship on the Athenian Amnesty. It begins with a snapshot of the events based on Xenophon’s account and Andokides’ comments, a fragmentary picture that suggests some of the problems that scholars faced in the early nineteenth century as they reconstructed the ancient paradigm. The chapter traces the course of scholarly opinion, before and after the publication of Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians (Ath. …
The Case Against Nikomachos and Rewriting the Laws
Conclusions and Defining Issues
From Thrasyboulos’ inaugural address in 403, calling for all to ‘know yourselves’ (as Xenophon recalled), to the suits against unfitting law, nomon mē epitēdeion, in the 350s bc (represented in Demosthenes 20 and 24), the new regime was committed to a ‘virtue of integrity’. There is a sense of organic unity in the body of rules, to be preserved by the new procedure for legislation by a panel of judges (nomothēsia). That new legislative procedure …
The Special Accountings and Lysias Against Eratosthenes
Lysias 12 attacks the oligarch Eratosthenes at ‘accounting’ for his official duties (euthyna). This chapter argues that the speech was not intended for trial in 403/2 (as usually supposed) but for an exceptional procedure devised at the second settlement (401). The accountings in 403 were subject to divided jurisdiction, as described in the Aristotelian account: officers in Athens would face trial before a local jury not including the democrats f…
The Meaning of Mê Mnêsikakein
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Diadikasiai and the Demotionid Problem
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Chapter Eight. What The Mnemones Know
The main provisions of the decree deal with mnemones , official rememberers. This chapter aims to reach a better understanding of their role in this particular context. It first re-examines the broken text and traces the main lines of interpretation that diverge from it, then considers the closest comparanda, in order to see what it is that early mnemones are especially called to witness and how they apply that knowledge. Based on that profile th…
Amnesty and Accountings for the Thirty
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Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Rhetoric and the Law of Draco
The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome
This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured spe…
The Edict of Oedipus ( Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51)
The Edict of Oedipus (Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51) Edwin Carawan I utter to all Cadmeans this proclamation! Whoever among you knows at whose hands Laius, son of Labdacus, perished, him I command to tell me all! If he is afraid that if he removes upon himself, well and good, he shall suffer nothing else unwelcome, but shall leave the land unharmed. But if someone knows another of you, or a foreigner, to be the killer, let him not be silent; for I can …
The Shape of Athenian Law
The Tetralogies and Athenian Homicide Trials
The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome
This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured spe…
The Edict of Oedipus ( Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51)
The Edict of Oedipus (Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51) Edwin Carawan I utter to all Cadmeans this proclamation! Whoever among you knows at whose hands Laius, son of Labdacus, perished, him I command to tell me all! If he is afraid that if he removes upon himself, well and good, he shall suffer nothing else unwelcome, but shall leave the land unharmed. But if someone knows another of you, or a foreigner, to be the killer, let him not be silent; for I can …
Decrees in Andocides' on the Mysteries and ‘Latent Fragments’ From Craterus
The manuscript of Andocides' speech On the Mysteries contains a series of documentary inserts culminating in the decrees of Patroclides (§§77–9), Tisamenus (§§83–4) and Demophantus (§§96–8). These decrees seem to fit their historical context and they are presented at length, with at least a few of the formalities that we would expect to find in the official record. Modern commentators have relied upon them as substantially genuine, allowing for t…
Amnesty and Accountings for the Thirty
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The Tetralogies and Athenian Homicide Trials
Court Reform, Klērōtēria , and Comic Testimony
In fourth-century Athens jurors were assigned to ten sections in the tribe (A-K), then selected for duty (or excluded from it) in a multi-stage lottery. Scholars have assumed that jurors were assigned to their sections randomly, by lottery among the whole tribe. This paper argues that the letter-sections originally represented a framework for regional balance. The procedure described in Ath. Pol. and illustrated by surviving artifacts evolved fro…
The Meaning of Mê Mnêsikakein
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Diadikasiai and the Demotionid Problem
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The Five Talents Cleon Coughed Up (Schol. Ar. Ach. 6)
In the opening lines of Aristophanes' Acharnians , Dicaeopolis counts first among his greatest joys ‘the five talents Cleon coughed up’, and he professes his love of the Knights for this service ‘worthy of Hellas’. The ancient scholiast gave what he thought an obvious explanation from Theopompus (F 94): he tells us that Cleon was accused of taking bribes to lighten the tribute of the islanders, and he was then fined ‘because of the outrage (ὑβρ⋯ζ…
ΕΘΕΤΑΙ and Athenian Courts for Homicide in the Age of the Orators
The Tetralogies and Athenian Homicide Trials
The Shape of Athenian Law
The Edict of Oedipus ( Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51)
The Edict of Oedipus (Oedipus Tyrannus 223–51) Edwin Carawan I utter to all Cadmeans this proclamation! Whoever among you knows at whose hands Laius, son of Labdacus, perished, him I command to tell me all! If he is afraid that if he removes upon himself, well and good, he shall suffer nothing else unwelcome, but shall leave the land unharmed. But if someone knows another of you, or a foreigner, to be the killer, let him not be silent; for I can …
Rhetoric and the Law of Draco
The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome
This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured spe…
Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Amnesty and Accountings for the Thirty
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Chapter Eight. What The Mnemones Know
The main provisions of the decree deal with mnemones , official rememberers. This chapter aims to reach a better understanding of their role in this particular context. It first re-examines the broken text and traces the main lines of interpretation that diverge from it, then considers the closest comparanda, in order to see what it is that early mnemones are especially called to witness and how they apply that knowledge. Based on that profile th…
Diadikasiai and the Demotionid Problem
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The Meaning of Mê Mnêsikakein
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Athenian Amnesty And Reconstructing The Law
This volume explores the amnesty which ended the civil war at Athens in 403 BC. It presents a new interpretation of the Athenian Amnesty in its original setting, and in view of the subsequent reconstruction of laws and democratic institutions in Athens, while also drawing on perspectives from parallels in modern history.
Paragraphē and ‘Civil Suits’
Chapter 5 focuses on the one of the signal reforms of the restored democracy, the special plea to bar litigation, paragraphē. This adaptation is documented in Isokrates’ speech (18) for the defendant Against Kallimachos, in a dispute over money that was confiscated under the oligarchy. Initially such suits were barred from the courts and the parties were left to resolve their disputes in arbitration or by other summary decisions. This case comes …
Comparanda
Chapter 3 proposes a new interpretaion of the Reconciliation Agreement at Athens and the oath that concluded it, ‘not to recall wrong’, mē mnēsikakein. Comparable agreements are found in literary testimony and inscribed treaties going back well before the Athenian example of 403 and continuing for generations afterward. These agreements typically consist of covenants (synthēkai) defining legal remedies and setting specific limits on retribution, …
The Homicide Rule and the Case Against Agoratos
Chapter 6 takes up the case of Agoratos whose information had led to the deaths of prominent democrats opposed to the oligarchy. Lysias’ speech (13) for one of the prosecutors anticipates the claim that charges against informants are barred by the Reconciliation Agreement, but the speechwriter constructs an elaborate argument around that barrier, insisting that Agoratos was party to a conspiracy to overthrow the democracy. Homicide suits against …
The Evolving Agreement
This chapter focuses on the Aristotelian account of the Amnesty (Ath. Pol. 39) and events leading up to it, with the aim of reconciling that account with the contemporary evidence of Lysias and Xenophon. The two traditions taken together indicate an important adaptation. The original agreement was built around the partition of Attica, with Eleusis reserved as an enclave for the oligarchs who could not be safe under the covenants that applied at A…
A Brief History of the Problem
Chapter 2 is a history of the scholarship on the Athenian Amnesty. It begins with a snapshot of the events based on Xenophon’s account and Andokides’ comments, a fragmentary picture that suggests some of the problems that scholars faced in the early nineteenth century as they reconstructed the ancient paradigm. The chapter traces the course of scholarly opinion, before and after the publication of Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians (Ath. …
The Case Against Nikomachos and Rewriting the Laws
Conclusions and Defining Issues
From Thrasyboulos’ inaugural address in 403, calling for all to ‘know yourselves’ (as Xenophon recalled), to the suits against unfitting law, nomon mē epitēdeion, in the 350s bc (represented in Demosthenes 20 and 24), the new regime was committed to a ‘virtue of integrity’. There is a sense of organic unity in the body of rules, to be preserved by the new procedure for legislation by a panel of judges (nomothēsia). That new legislative procedure …
The Special Accountings and Lysias Against Eratosthenes
Lysias 12 attacks the oligarch Eratosthenes at ‘accounting’ for his official duties (euthyna). This chapter argues that the speech was not intended for trial in 403/2 (as usually supposed) but for an exceptional procedure devised at the second settlement (401). The accountings in 403 were subject to divided jurisdiction, as described in the Aristotelian account: officers in Athens would face trial before a local jury not including the democrats f…
Documents in the Case
In Demosthenes’ speeches we find documentary versions of laws and decrees which were not included in the prepared text nor (apparently) in early versions for circulation. Recent work on manuscript stichometry suggests a pattern in what appear to be the earliest inserts. In Demosthenes 23 and 24, in cases against unlawful legislation, a significant set of documents was included in the line-count edition; these largely correspond to the paragegramm…
Court Reform, Klērōtēria , and Comic Testimony
In fourth-century Athens jurors were assigned to ten sections in the tribe (A-K), then selected for duty (or excluded from it) in a multi-stage lottery. Scholars have assumed that jurors were assigned to their sections randomly, by lottery among the whole tribe. This paper argues that the letter-sections originally represented a framework for regional balance. The procedure described in Ath. Pol. and illustrated by surviving artifacts evolved fro…
Political Obligation in Ancient Greece and the Modern World by Mogens Herman Hansen
202 PHOENIX adopted the language and institutions of the polis, including assemblies and officials with familiar titles such as tamias, grammateus, and epistates. Constantakopoulou concludes that there were assemblies “not exclusively composed by the citizens of the place” (230) and that these engaged in important decision-making processes that went beyond issuing honorary decrees and included resolving acute crises within communities. Intriguing…
Decrees in Andocides' on the Mysteries and ‘Latent Fragments’ From Craterus
The manuscript of Andocides' speech On the Mysteries contains a series of documentary inserts culminating in the decrees of Patroclides (§§77–9), Tisamenus (§§83–4) and Demophantus (§§96–8). These decrees seem to fit their historical context and they are presented at length, with at least a few of the formalities that we would expect to find in the official record. Modern commentators have relied upon them as substantially genuine, allowing for t…
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