Athenian wicked. The processes on charges of religious wickedness in Athens at the end of the 5th century. BC. e

The monograph by the assistant professor of St. Petersburg State University E.V. Nikityuk is devoted to the formation of religious law in the classical Athens and specific excesses associated with its violation.
The author carefully systematizes the data of the ancient tradition about the essence of wickedness (asbia) in the understanding of the ancients, about the types of misconduct, qualified as religious wickedness, on ways of initiating accusations in such cases, and also considers the course of the trial itself. In Athens, this kind of crimes had a wide public outcry, since many well -known characters were involved in these processes: the philosophers Anaxagoras and Protagor, the sculptor of Fidiy, the military leader Alcibiades and others. and the culture of the ancient world