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The birth of nomos

Title: The birth of nomos [electronic resource] / Thanos Zartaloudis.
Author: Zartaloudis, Thanos.
Publication: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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1 online resource (xli, 485 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to give us a new and complete understanding of nomos and its foundational place in the Western legal tradition.

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note: pt. ONE HOMERIC NOMOS -- One. Nomos of Feasts and ̀Sacrifices' -- 1. Distribution-sharing -- 2. Feasts -- 3. ̀Sacrifice' -- 4. Meat -- 5. Commensality -- 6. Sympotic distribution-sharing -- 7. distributive ethos? -- Two. Nomos Moiregenes -- 1. Moira -- 2. Klothology: weaving a life -- 3. Apportionment -- 4. Binding -- 5. Weighing the scales -- 6. Dunamis -- 7. One cannot go permanently without sleep -- 8. Meropes anthropoi -- Three. Nomos of the Land -- 1. Nemo-land -- 2. Mycenaean land-'holding' -- 3. Homeric land-'holding' -- 4. Kleros -- 5. Apoikia -- 6. Oikos -- 7. Temenos -- 8. word that wasn't there -- Four. Pastoral Nomos -- 1. Pastoral oikonomia -- 2. Homeric shepherds -- 3. Pastoral ethos -- 4. Nemein -- 5. Nomos -- 6. Nomios -- 7. nomad nomos -- Five. Nemesis -- 1. Indignation -- 2. Visibilities -- 3. Aidos -- 4. Huperdikon Nemesin -- pt. TWO POST-HOMERIC NOMOS -- Six. Nomos of the Post-Homeric Poets -- 1. Hesiod's cosmonomy -- 2. Hesiodic nomos -- 3. Alcman, Alcaeus, Archilochus and Theognis -- Seven. Nomos of Heraclitus -- 1. Kosmology -- 2. Nemo -- 3. Nomizein -- 4. Fr. 114 -- 5. Palinomia -- Eight. Nomos Basileus -- 1. Pindar's nemein -- 2. Nomos basileus -- 3. Heracles -- 4. Diomedes and Geryon -- 5. Bia and dike -- 6. Agamben's nomos basileus -- 7. Holderlin's un-Heraclean nomos -- 8. Cosmonomy -- 9. Neither a nomodicy, nor a nomomachia -- Nine. Nomos of the Tragedians -- 1. Prologue -- 2. Nemein -- 2.1. Aeschylus -- 2.2. Sophocles -- 2.3. Euripides -- 3. Nomao/Nomon -- 4. Nomos -- 4.1. Aeschylus -- 4.2. Sophocles 280 Antigone's nomos -- Burial -- Hupsipolis -- Antigonomia -- Autonomos -- 4.3. Euripides -- Ten. Nomos Mousikos -- 1. Bios mousikos -- 2. note on ̀ritual' mousike -- 3. Δια μoυσασ -- 4. Harmonia -- 5. Mousikos nomos -- 6. early law-givers' song.

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