Routledge Revivals Torture and Truth First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as some- thing hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the ‘Other’ (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives — from Plato to Sartre — are employed to examine the subject. This page intentionally left blank Torture and Truth Page duBois Firstpublishedin1991 byRoutledge Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2016byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1991Routledge,ChapmanandHall,Inc. TherightofPageduBoistobeidentifiedasauthorofthisworkhasbeenassertedbyher inaccordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. All rightsreserved.No part ofthis bookmaybe reprintedor reproducedor utilisedin any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbutpoints outthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletocontact. ALibraryofCongressrecordexistsunderLCcontrolnumber:8949565 ISBN13:978-1-138-20362-4(hbk) ISBN13:978-1-315-47089-4(ebk) TORTURE and TRUTH PAGE duBOIS ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK • LONDON Published in 1991 by Routledge An imprint of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29 West 35 Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 1991 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter in vented, including photocopying and recording, or in any in formation storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data DuBois, Page Torture and truth / Page DuBois p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-415-90212-6 ISBN 0-415-90213-4 (pbk.) 1. Torture—Greece—History. 2. Greece— Civilization—To 146 B.C. 3. Torture—History. I. Title HV8599.G82D83 1990 364.67—dc20 89-49565 British Library Cataloging in publication data also available For Jean-Pierre Vernant This page intentionally left blank Contents 1. Rome, 1985 1 2. Touchstone 9 3. The Law 35 4. Slavery and Freedom 39 5. Torture 47 6. The Slave's Truth 63 7. Torture and Writing 69 8. Buried Truth 75 9. Some Pre-Socratics 93