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2017
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In conclusion, the four trial scenes of Chariton’s novel reveal a range of attitudes to the law. In all, the character of the leader—the commander of Syracuse or the king of Persia—determines the integrity of the system of justice. The grandiose and spectacular venues of the Syracusan forum and agora and the Babylonian courtroom speak to of the form of legal consciousness that Ewick and Silbey call ‘Before the Law’, when the court is perceived as ‘an objective realm of disinterested action’. Yet both Hermocrates and the Persian king struggle between their private interests and their duty: Hermocrates
