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Alternative title:

Athenian funerary law

ORCID:

000-0002-2999-8455

Subject and Keywords:

Athenian law   funerary law   Law of the Twelve Tables   Solon   Demetrius of Phaleron   Plato (427-347 a.C.)

Description:

Tyt. tomu: Studia historycznoprawne

Abstract:

The article is devoted to the Athenian funerary law. First, the author presents the duty — which was both religious and legal — to bury the body. Next he provides an in-depth analysis of various funerary laws from Solon to Demetrius of Phaleron as well as the funerary law that Plato provided for his ideal state. The existing laws specified the forms of acceptable human behaviour during funerals, limited their costs, type of sacrifice and size of tombs. Their objective was also to limit the spread in the public sphere of the polis of religious pollution resulting from contact with the deceased. Solon’s funerary law influenced other known Greek regulations dealing with funerals, especially the law of the Labyadai phratry at Delphi, the law of the Ioulis polis on the island of Keos as well as the oldest Roman code of law — the Law of the Twelve Tables.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2015

Date copyrighted:

2015

Identifier:

ISSN 0524-4544   ISSN 0239-6661

Source:

PAd P 101182 II

Language:

pol

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661, No 3674. Prawo, ISSN 0524-4544, 2015, 319, s. 11-34

Is version of:

Czasopisma naukowe w Sieci (CNS)

Rights holder:

Copyright by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.

Autor opisu:

WR U/PAdjm