Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens

"Cohen's is one of those exciting and rather rare books that take a large piece of historical orthodoxy, explain the intellectual matrix from which the accepted belief derives, and present a cogently argued alternative. The orthodoxy in this case is that classical Athens developed a system of legal order that effectively regulated...violence and feuds....David Cohen's book imposes itself as one of the most perceptive and original works in Greek history to have been published for several years."Cohen, David is the author of 'Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521388375 and ISBN 0521388376.