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Author : Douglas Maurice MacDowell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 080149365X
Author : Douglas Maurice MacDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015011939520
Author : David Phillips
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035915
A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Christopher Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Vasileios Adamidis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.
Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317800507
Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of abstract thought on justice and of the democratic politics of the fifth century. His work is a valuable source of information on all aspects of Athenian law and its relation to culture.
Author : Raphael Sealey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452656
In this 2006 book, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyses the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualised and discretionary approach to justice.
Author : Michael Gagarin,David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826891
This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays, written by an international team of experts, deal with procedural and substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is also paid to legal practice in the archaic and Hellenistic eras; areas that offer substantial evidence for legal practice, such as Crete and Egypt; the intersection of law with religion, philosophy, political theory, rhetoric, and drama, as well as the unity of Greek law and the role of writing in law. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among specialists.
Author : Deborah Kamen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691195971
In the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens, Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.
Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477320372
The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants’ rhetorical performances. Did this make it nothing more than a rhetorical contest judged by largely uneducated citizens that had nothing to do with law, a criticism that some, including Plato, have made? Michael Gagarin argues to the contrary, contending that the Athenians both controlled litigants’ performances and incorporated many other unusual features into their legal system, including rules for interrogating slaves and swearing an oath. The Athenians, Gagarin shows, adhered to the law as they understood it, which was a set of principles more flexible than our current understanding allows. The Athenians also insisted that their legal system serve the ends of justice and benefit the city and its people. In this way, the law ultimately satisfied most Athenians and probably produced just results as often as modern legal systems do. Comprehensive and wide-ranging, Democratic Law in Classical Athens offers a new perspective for viewing a legal system that was democratic in a way only the Athenians could achieve.
Author : Konstantinos A. Kapparis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.