Arguing against the idea that in Athens a voluntary abortion procured by a woman belonging to an oikos could be prosecuted either with a private specific action (dike ambloseos) or with a public action for hybris, the article provides a new possible overall interpretation of the confused fragments of a lost Lysian speech concerning this topic. While supporting the traditional opinion that an abortion procured by a married woman without the consent of her husband was considered a private matter to be resolved exclusively inside the oikos, it points out some particular circumstances in which abortion could be relevant also in a public dimension, analyzing non-Athenian sources that might provide some possible parallel frameworks.
Abortion in ancient Greece / L. Pepe. ((Intervento presentato al 19. convegno Symposion of Greek and Hellenistic Law tenutosi a Harvard nel 2013.
Abortion in ancient Greece
L. PepePrimo
2013
Abstract
Arguing against the idea that in Athens a voluntary abortion procured by a woman belonging to an oikos could be prosecuted either with a private specific action (dike ambloseos) or with a public action for hybris, the article provides a new possible overall interpretation of the confused fragments of a lost Lysian speech concerning this topic. While supporting the traditional opinion that an abortion procured by a married woman without the consent of her husband was considered a private matter to be resolved exclusively inside the oikos, it points out some particular circumstances in which abortion could be relevant also in a public dimension, analyzing non-Athenian sources that might provide some possible parallel frameworks.
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