<b>Truth and power in Greek judicial practice: from Homero to tragedians</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v33i2.10983

  • Carlos Alberto Sanches Junior Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP
Keywords: greek tragedy, juridical practices, ancient rights, Foucault

Abstract

The ‘political history of truth’ promoted by Foucault reaches several times ancient Greek world. In one of those occasions he analyses Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. His point of view is consistent with theorists like Jean-Pierre Vernant whereby tragic contests plays a civic function in the environment of democratic polis. This paper discusses Greek judiciary practices and his mechanisms of truth, pointing tragedy as privileged document and possibly watershed

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Author Biography

Carlos Alberto Sanches Junior, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP
Bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista. Mestrando em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista.
Published
2011-12-19
How to Cite
Sanches Junior, C. A. (2011). <b>Truth and power in Greek judicial practice: from Homero to tragedians</b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v33i2.10983. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 33(2), 217-226. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v33i2.10983
Section
History and Philosophy