TY - CHAP

T1 - Penalties in Delphic paramone Clauses: A Gender Perspective

AU - Rubinstein, Lene

PY - 2021/12

Y1 - 2021/12

N2 - This paper discusses the legal capacity and motivations of female manumittors in Hellenistic Delphi, and the penal authority bestowed on female beneficiaries appointed in paramone clauses. These suggest that women enjoyed similar penal authority to that of male beneficiaries, depending on the stipulations in each contract. Manumissions appointing female beneficiaries of paramone may reflect the need to reduce the risk of claims asserted by heir or creditors of the beneficiary’s male kin, whom it would often have been difficult for a woman to fend off through the courts.

AB - This paper discusses the legal capacity and motivations of female manumittors in Hellenistic Delphi, and the penal authority bestowed on female beneficiaries appointed in paramone clauses. These suggest that women enjoyed similar penal authority to that of male beneficiaries, depending on the stipulations in each contract. Manumissions appointing female beneficiaries of paramone may reflect the need to reduce the risk of claims asserted by heir or creditors of the beneficiary’s male kin, whom it would often have been difficult for a woman to fend off through the courts.

KW - paramone, penalty clauses, corporal punishment, contracts, women’s legal capacity

U2 - 10.1553/978OEAW90073

DO - 10.1553/978OEAW90073

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783700190073

T3 - Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschiche

SP - 455

BT - Symposion 2019

A2 - Harter-Uibopuu, Kaja

A2 - Rieß, Werner

PB - Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

CY - Vienna

ER -