Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Attenuante o aggravante? L'ebbrezza nei tribunali di Atene / L. Pepe. - In: CODEX. - ISSN 2724-2110. - 1:(2020), pp. 157-176.
Abstract:
Was drunkenness an aggravating factor in Athenian Law, as it was, for example, in Mytilene during the time of Pittacus? Aristotle seems to imply this in a passage of his Nicomachean Ethics, when he says that both common people and lawgivers do not consider subject to “pardon” (syggnome) the offence perpetrated by an intoxicated person. A careful analysis of the evidence provided by Athenian judicial speeches, however, shows that in general terms the Aristotelic stance cannot be considered absolutely true. Only when clearly linked with a hybristic behavior drunkenness was held as a cause of an intentional offence, and accordingly punished as such.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Drunkenness; Responsibility; Athenian Law; Logographers; Aristotle
Elenco autori:
L. Pepe
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