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Author : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521198806
This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.
Author : Edward Harris,Lene Rubinstein
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053022128
How successful were the Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as law both in the polis and internationally? This collection of essays sets out to answer these questions.
Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521388376
Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, this analysis of the legal regulation of violence in Athenian society challenges traditional accounts of the development of the legal process. It examines theories of social conflict and the rule of law as well as actual litigation.
Author : Dennis P. Kehoe,Thomas McGinn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130436
An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit--and, in turn, changed--their worlds
Author : Paula Perlman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781477315217
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into extant legal, forensic, and historical texts for evidence of the law in action. From such study has arisen the field of ancient Greek law as a scholarly discipline within classical studies, a field that has come into its own since the 1970s. This edited volume charts new directions for the study of Greek law in the twenty-first century through contributions from eleven leading scholars. The essays in the book’s first section reassess some of the central debates in the field by looking at questions about the role of law in society, the notion of “contracts,” feuding and revenge in the court system, and legal protections for slaves engaged in commerce. The second section breaks new ground by redefining substantive areas of law such as administrative law and sacred law, as well as by examining sources such as Hellenistic inscriptions that have been comparatively neglected in recent scholarship. The third section evaluates the potential of methodological approaches to the study of Greek law, including comparative studies with other cultures and with modern legal theory. The volume ends with an essay that explores pedagogy and the relevance of teaching Greek law in the twenty-first century.
Author : David Phillips
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035915
A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author : George M. Calhoun
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520348653
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1927.
Author : Douglas Maurice MacDowell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 080149365X
Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139456890
This volume brings together essays on Athenian law by Edward M. Harris, who challenges much of the recent scholarship on this topic. Presenting a balanced analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens, Harris stresses the importance of substantive issues and their contribution to our understanding of different types of legal procedures. He combines careful philological analysis with close attention to the political and social contexts of individual statutes. Collectively, the essays in this volume demonstrate the relationship between law and politics, the nature of the economy, the position of women, and the role of the legal system in Athenian society. They also show that the Athenians were more sophisticated in their approach to legal issues than has been assumed in the modern scholarship on this topic.
Author : Konstantinos A. Kapparis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317177517
Athenian Law and Society focuses upon the intersection of law and society in classical Athens, in relation to topics like politics, class, ability, masculinity, femininity, gender studies, economics, citizenship, slavery, crime, and violence. The book explores the circumstances and broader context which led to the establishment of the laws of Athens, and how these laws influenced the lives and action of Athenian citizens, by examining a wide range of sources from classical and late antique history and literature. Kapparis also explores later literature on Athenian law from the Renaissance up to the 20th and 21st centuries, examining the long-lasting impact of the world’s first democracy. Athenian Law and Society is a study of the intersection between law and society in classical Athens that has a wide range of applications to study of the Athenian polis, as well as law, democracy, and politics in both classical and more modern settings.
Author : Christopher Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134841585
This comprehensive book will be a fundamental resource for students of Ancient Greek history and anyone interested in the law, social history and oratory of the Ancient Greek world.
Author : Vincent Farenga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139456784
This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.
Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547026365
The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.
Author : Raphael Sealey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469610245
Based on a sophisticated reading of legal evidence, this book offers a balanced assessment of the status of women in classical Greece. Raphael Sealey analyzes the rights of women in marriage, in the control of property, and in questions of inheritance. He advances the theory that the legal disabilities of Greek women occurred because they were prohibited from bearing arms. Sealey demonstrates that, with some local differences, there was a general uniformity in the legal treatment of women in the Greek cities. For Athens, the law of the family has been preserved in some detail in the scrupulous records of speeches delivered in lawsuits. These records show that Athenian women could testify, own property, and be tried for crime, but a male guardian had to administer their property and represent them at law. Gortyn allowed relatively more independence to the female than did Athens, and in Sparta, although women were allowed to have more than one husband, the laws were similar to those of Athens. Sealey's subsequent comparison of the law of these cities with Roman law throws into relief the common concepts and aims of Greek law of the family. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Vasileios Adamidis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317168430
There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory and practice devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. The widespread use of character evidence in every aspect of argumentation can be traced to the Greek ideas of ‘character’ and ‘personality’, the inductive method of reasoning, and the social, political and institutional structures of the ancient Greek polis. According to the author’s proposed method of interpretation, character evidence was not a means of diverting the jury’s attention away from the legal issues; instead, it was a constructive and relevant way of developing a legal argument.