Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance

SECTION I: The general principles of blood-vengeance, analysed and illustrated: modes of vengeance of modern races in the Balkans, in the Mediterranean area, and in South Americ...

The Pelasgian system of blood-vengeance: current views explained and criticised: author’s view: proofs from the text of Homer: question of a distinction between murder and mansl...

The Achaean system explained according to author’s theory: proofs from Homeric text: question of discrimination, amongst Achaeans, between murder and manslaughter, and between j...

Judicial aspect of homicide in early Greece: current views criticised: author’s theory based on distinction between Achaean and Pelasgian societies: arguments from survivals in...

Religious aspect of homicide in early Greece: current views: digression on evolution of Greek religion: ancestor-worship: nature-worship: animal sacra: image-magic: anthropomorp...

SECTION I: Social transitions: fall of Achaean Empire and its causes: Achaean survivals: political changes in post-Homeric times: post-Homeric migrations: Sparta and Boeotia: th...

The Draconian Code: restored inscription of 409/8 B.C. and author’s explanation: other Draconian homicide-laws derived from Demosthenes: Plato’s code confirms and supplements th...

The Attic Homicide Courts: Attic legends concerning origin of courts for homicide: the accounts of Pollux, of Aristotle, of Demosthenes: question of γραφὴ φόνου: Plato’s _Euthyp...

SECTION I.: The general principles of blood-vengeance, analysed and illustrated: customs of modern races in the Balkans, in the Mediterranean area, and in South America: customs...

of the Aetolians offered a choice of their richest lands as a ‘domain’ to Meleager. H. Seebohm holds[81] that it is improbable that the richest lands were at the time unoccupied...

Current views explained and criticised: author’s view: proofs from the text of Homer: question of a distinction between murder and manslaughter, and between justifiable and unju...

Achaean system explained according to author’s theory: proofs from Homeric text: question of discrimination, amongst Achaeans, between murder and manslaughter, and between justi...

Current views criticised: author’s theory based on distinction between Achaean and Pelasgian societies: arguments from survivals in historical times: meaning of δικασπόλοι βασιλ...

Current views: digression on evolution of Greek religion: ancestor-worship: nature-worship: animal sacra: image-magic: anthropomorphism: Achaean and Pelasgian contributions to H...

SECTION I: Political changes in post-Homeric times: fall of Achaean Empire and its causes: post-Homeric migrations: Achaean survivals: the Hesiodic age of chaos: tribal stabilit...

Restored inscription of 409-8 B.C. and author’s explanation: other Draconian homicide-laws derived from Demosthenes: Plato’s code confirms and supplements these data: classifica...

Attic legends concerning origin of courts for homicide: the accounts of Pollux, of Aristotle, of Demosthenes: question of a γραφὴ φόνου: Plato’s _Euthyphro_: author’s theory of...

The ruthless hand of callous Fortune has robbed the world and civilisation of all save seven of the dramatic works of Aeschylus, the first and perhaps the greatest of European t...

‘Greek drama,’ says Jevons,[1] ‘owes its origin to religion and its development to art. It is but another way of stating this fact to say that one sign of the growth of the Gree...

The extant dramas of Euripides are permeated with references to homicide. It will be necessary to examine seventeen out of the nineteen extant plays. We need not discuss the _Cy...