Abstract

TORNEL CALDERON, Marcos García. Greek tragedy and justice: An analysis of the ideas of justice and law in classical tragedy. Rev. Jur. Der. [online]. 2020, vol.9, n.13, pp.71-90. ISSN 2413-2810.

Abstract: Elemeets of legal discourse are analyzed and it is hypothesized that it is possible to find in the Greek tragedy a background of ideas of Law and Justice that are fundamental to modern legal thought. In orderto achieve this, the study begins by briefly discussing the quality of the Greek tragedy as a source of knowledge based on its general character, as well as its fragmentary and contextual nature. Subsequently, the ideas of Law and Justice underlying selected texts of the classical Greek tragedy are analyzed: The Oresteia is used to analyze howthe idea oftrial is being constructed in the tragedy as a rupture of the chain of revenge; Oedipus Rex\s used to show how already atthat momentthere is an initial idea ofthe Rule of Law; and, finally, Antigone is analyzed as the founding text ofthe modern legal tradition.

Keywords : Law; Justice; Greek tragedy; Law philosophy.

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