Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance

POINE
A STUDY IN ANCIENT GREEK BLOOD-VENGEANCE
By HUBERT J. TRESTON, M.A. PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT CLASSICS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK
Rien de ce qu’ont pensé les Hellènes n’est indifférent à l’histoire de la civilisation. —Glotz
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C. 4 NEW YORK, TORONTO BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS 1923


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It has not been my purpose in writing this book to occupy myself in expanding or discussing some articles written on Greek criminal law in a learned dictionary of antiquities. While it is true that ancient law, however crude and obscure its expression, is not so repulsive, so inhumanly technical as medieval or modern law, and while it is also true that a writer on Greek blood-vengeance cannot avoid an occasional reference to legal formulae and technique, nevertheless I feel that a merely legal treatise would not advance the prospects of Greek education or our knowledge of Greek civilisation, for the simple reason that no one but a professed student of ancient law could be induced to read it!