Introduction Part I. Pre-Trial Plays: 1. The staging of dispute settlement 2. Initiating justice: threat, summons, and arrest Part II. Reconciliation and its Rhetoric: 3. Private arbitration and reconciliation in Athens and Rome 4. Scenarios of arbitration and reconciliation in New Comedy 5. Redress for sexual offences in Athenian and Roman law 6. The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy 7. Arguing behind closed doors Part III. Playing on the Boundaries of the Law: 8. Entrapment and framing Appendices: 1. Official arbitration in the Attic orators 2. Private arbitrations and reconciliations in Athens 3. Remedies for enslavement, kidnapping and slave-stealing in Athens and Rome 4. Controversial summonses in Rudens and Persa 5. Threats of lawsuits and self-help remedies in Graeco-Roman New Comedy 6. Ambiguous arbitri in Roman comedy 7. Moikhos and moikheia.
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