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Author : David Phillips
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035915
A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author : Douglas Maurice MacDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015011939520
Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199899166
The Law in Action in Democratic Athens is the first extensive study of the importance of the rule of law in Athenian democracy.
Author : Edwin Carawan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421439501
The definitive book on judicial review in Athens from the 5th through the 4th centuries BCE. The power of the court to overturn a law or decree—called judicial review—is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judges, for example, determine what is consistent with the Constitution, though this practice is often criticized for giving unelected officials the power to strike down laws enacted by the people's representatives. This principle was actually developed more than two thousand years ago in the ancient democracy at Athens. In Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens, Edwin Carawan reassesses the accumulated evidence to construct a new model of how Athenians made law in the time of Plato and Aristotle, while examining how the courts controlled that process. Athenian juries, Carawan explains, were manned by many hundreds of ordinary citizens rather than a judicial elite. Nonetheless, in the 1890s, American apologists found vindication for judicial review in the ancient precedent. They believed that Athenian judges decided the fate of laws and decrees legalistically, focusing on fundamental text, because the speeches that survive from antiquity often involve close scrutiny of statutes attributed to lawgivers such as Solon, much as a modern appellate judge might resort to the wording of the Framers. Carawan argues that inscriptions, speeches, and fragments of lost histories make clear that text-based constitutionalism was not so compelling as the ethos of the community. Carawan explores how the judicial review process changed over time. From the restoration of democracy down to its last decades, the Athenians made significant reforms in their method of legislation, first to expedite a cumbersome process, then to revive the more rigorous safeguards. Jury selection adapted accordingly: the procedure was recast to better represent the polis, and packing the court was thwarted by a complicated lottery. But even as the system evolved, the debate remained much the same: laws and decrees were measured by a standard crafted in the image of the people. Offering a comprehensive account of the ancient origins of an important political institution through philological methods, rhetorical analysis of ancient arguments, and comparisons between models of judicial review in ancient Greece and the modern United States, Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens is an innovative study of ancient Greek law and democracy.
Author : Konstantinos A. Kapparis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317800514
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 : Adriaan Lanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Alick Robin Walsham Harrison
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 087220412X
Volume I, completed in 1968, gives a systematic account of classical Athenian law concerning family and property. Volume II, on the law of obligations and of procedure, was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1969. The part which concerns procedure was virtually complete and, edited by D. M. MacDowell, appeared in 1971. MacDowell has provided a new Foreword for this edition as well as a select bibliography (from 1967 to the present), which appears in both volumes. Together these distinguished works form the most detailed study of Athenian law in the last half-century.
Author : Alick Robin Walsham Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law, Greek
ISBN : UCSC:32106006251802
Author : Douglas Maurice MacDowell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 080149365X
Author : Vasileios Adamidis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Roger Just
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134931668
This book provides a comprehensive account of the Athenians' conception of women during the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Though nothing remains that represents the authentic voice of the women themselves, there is a wealth of evidence showing how men sought to define women. By working through a range of material, from the provisions of Athenian law through to the representations of tragedy and comedy, the author builds up, in the manner of an anthropological ethnography, a coherent and integrated picture of the Athenians' notion of `woman'.
Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : 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.
