Stub - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Query: 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Sally Humphreys[1] (1978: p. 83) referred to “the disciplinary powers and clear consciousness of eukosmia and akosmia (order and disorder) associated with religious festivals.”
Gernet[2] made much of this in his study of Greek penal law. His 1917 Recherches sur le développement de la pensée juridique et morale en Grèce showed how the Greeks invented new words for their concepts of isonomia and their new universe: “dysnomia was created in antithesis to eunomia (which in Homer had been contrasted with hybris)” (quoted in Humphreys[3] p. 85). “Hybris, losing its old meanings to dysnomia and adikēma, was drawn into a new ambit of meditation on the ‘offender’ and his psychology.”These paragraphs are a stub. Can you help us expand them, and in particular add the context for them: the introduction of the concept, the conclusion of the point being made, and a transition into the next paragraph after them (beginning “I have already discussed religion…”)?
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- ↑ Sally Humphreys, Anthropology and the Greeks (London: 1978), p. 83.
- ↑ Louis Gernet, Recherches sur le développement de la pensée juridique et morale en Grèce (Paris: 1917).
- ↑ Sally Humphreys, Anthropology and the Greeks (London: 1978), p. 85.
