CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Justifiable Homicide, Public Humiliation, Homicide
1 Jan 2018
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Monday, october 16th: courts, law-givers and speech-writers, the woman least mentioned (cid:41804) courts. 12 columns of inscribed text ordered from right to left. Was the codification of the civil law of the ancient greek city-state of gortyn in southern crete. Punishment public humiliation was a great for of punishment and penalty, face is very important in greek culture. Often times another set of speeches were given by the defence and prosecution for what the punishment should be. While execution was the first and only form of punishment, it grew to be that it was hardly ever used. Curses an alternative to legal proceedings, to curse somebody was to set justice. Oaths of the homicide court hill of ardetos: all of the jurors in homicide court would swear an oath where there was animal sacrifice of the pig, ox, and sheep. Unusual for more than one of an animal to be killed, if so it is of the same breed.
