...one lope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. The ethical structure of that day had not yet been extended to human chattels. During the three thousand...

...misbehaviour during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety, much less justice. The girls were property. The disposal of property...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. Criteria of right and wrong were not lacking from Odysseus' Greece. The ethical structure of that day...

...one rope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The...the wine-dark seas for home. The ethical structure ofthat day covered wives, but had not yet been extended to human chattels. During the three thousand...

...one rope a dozen slave girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehaviour during his absence. The girls were property. The disposal of property...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. . . . There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which...

...misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety, much less of justice. The girls were property. The disposal of property...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. Criteria of right and wrong were not lacking from Odysseus' Greece: witness the fidelity of his wife...

...one rope a dozen slave girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The...his wife through the long years before at last his black-browed galleys clove the wine-dark seas for home. The ethical structure of that day covered wives,...

...one rope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The...right and wrong were not lacking from Odysseus' Greece . . . There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which...

...their transgressions in his absence. "The hanging involved no question of propriety," Leopold reported. "The girls were property. The disposal of property...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong." In time, conduct once governed by norms of ownership began to be viewed in human, ethical terms. As...

...property. He notes that Odysseus could hang his disobedient slave-girls because they were property, and "the disposal of property was then, as now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong"(201). But although ethics have progressed to the point where human beings may no longer be owiied,...

...one rope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The...now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. More recently Bromley and Hodge (1990:198) observed: "More generally private property in land is said...