Steven Johnstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3951952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Johnstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnstone |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTONE S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Apportioning Liability
This chapter examines the practice of apportioning liability in ancient Greece. It explains that collective liability avoids challenges in determining individual liability in groups and discusses the problem of proportionalizing liability in groups. This chapter analyzes three litigation cases and presents sustained examination of Xenophon's detailed critical analysis of equally shared liability. It highlights Xenophon's criticism on collective l…
Haggling
This chapter examines the haggling in ancient Greece as an economic activity and as a cultural practice. It suggests that haggling highlighted the complex relations between trust in abstract systems and trust in persons. It explores the comic representations of haggling in order to understand its procedures and protocols and the ways it encoded conflict. This chapter suggests that Greek marketplace regulations should be understood to be aimed at …
Valuing
This chapter examines the practice of valuing and the attribution of money values in nonmarket contexts in ancient Greece, particularly in the civic domain. It offers a history of the so-called timemata or civic valuing and explains Greek cities' practice of appointing an individual responsible for distinguishing citizens by wealth. This chapter also explains that commensuration through money sometimes created quantified incomparables by setting …
Deciding
This chapter examines legal decision making in ancient Greece. It considers how the active, judging role of the audience in Athenian courts and assemblies has been obscured by the reduction of rhetoric to persuasion and describes how elite and ordinary Athenians negotiated their class interests through ideology in rhetorical contexts. This chapter argues that a generalized trust in the system preceded and established trust in specific speakers an…
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy and markets flourished in ancient not so much through personal relationships as through trust in abstract systems - including money, standardized …
Cracking the code of silence
Both men insisted that the other’s desire for the woman ignited the conflict. The accuser claimed that the defendant, a longstanding enemy who had been captivated by the charms of the accuser’s mistress, had barged into his house, seized the woman, and tried to kill him with a piece of pottery. The defendant admitted there had been a melee, but contended that he had been invited to a drinking party at the accuser’s house – slaves, flute girls, an…
Apology for the Manuscript of Demosthenes 59.67
Apology for the Manuscript of Demosthenes 59.67 Steven Johnstone In the fourth century, when the athenians considered changing a law, they treated the process as equivalent to an accusation against the old law. They therefore held a trial and took care to appoint advocates for the old law, citizens who could vigorously defend the voiceless law against the charges of those who would alter it. In this article I would like similarly to defend a law …
Disputes and Democracy
Disputes and Democracy
Disputes and Democracy
Journal Article Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Classical Athens Get access Johnstone Steven, Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Classical AthensAustin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xi, 207pp. $37.50 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). David Cohen David Cohen University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volum…
Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work
Disputes and Democracy
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy and markets flourished in ancient not so much through personal relationships as through trust in abstract systems - including money, standardized …
Disputes and Democracy
Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work
Disputes and Democracy
Disputes and Democracy
Journal Article Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Classical Athens Get access Johnstone Steven, Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Classical AthensAustin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xi, 207pp. $37.50 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). David Cohen David Cohen University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volum…
Disputes and Democracy
Apology for the Manuscript of Demosthenes 59.67
Apology for the Manuscript of Demosthenes 59.67 Steven Johnstone In the fourth century, when the athenians considered changing a law, they treated the process as equivalent to an accusation against the old law. They therefore held a trial and took care to appoint advocates for the old law, citizens who could vigorously defend the voiceless law against the charges of those who would alter it. In this article I would like similarly to defend a law …
Cracking the code of silence
Both men insisted that the other’s desire for the woman ignited the conflict. The accuser claimed that the defendant, a longstanding enemy who had been captivated by the charms of the accuser’s mistress, had barged into his house, seized the woman, and tried to kill him with a piece of pottery. The defendant admitted there had been a melee, but contended that he had been invited to a drinking party at the accuser’s house – slaves, flute girls, an…
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy and markets flourished in ancient not so much through personal relationships as through trust in abstract systems - including money, standardized …
Apportioning Liability
This chapter examines the practice of apportioning liability in ancient Greece. It explains that collective liability avoids challenges in determining individual liability in groups and discusses the problem of proportionalizing liability in groups. This chapter analyzes three litigation cases and presents sustained examination of Xenophon's detailed critical analysis of equally shared liability. It highlights Xenophon's criticism on collective l…
Haggling
This chapter examines the haggling in ancient Greece as an economic activity and as a cultural practice. It suggests that haggling highlighted the complex relations between trust in abstract systems and trust in persons. It explores the comic representations of haggling in order to understand its procedures and protocols and the ways it encoded conflict. This chapter suggests that Greek marketplace regulations should be understood to be aimed at …
Valuing
This chapter examines the practice of valuing and the attribution of money values in nonmarket contexts in ancient Greece, particularly in the civic domain. It offers a history of the so-called timemata or civic valuing and explains Greek cities' practice of appointing an individual responsible for distinguishing citizens by wealth. This chapter also explains that commensuration through money sometimes created quantified incomparables by setting …
Deciding
This chapter examines legal decision making in ancient Greece. It considers how the active, judging role of the audience in Athenian courts and assemblies has been obscured by the reduction of rhetoric to persuasion and describes how elite and ordinary Athenians negotiated their class interests through ideology in rhetorical contexts. This chapter argues that a generalized trust in the system preceded and established trust in specific speakers an…
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