Envy, Poison, & Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens

by Esther Eidinow

Book Overview

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822588
• ISBN13: 9780198822585
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"