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Book Ephesis in Athenian Litigation

Download or read book Ephesis in Athenian Litigation written by John Danby Ralph and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Athens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alick Robin Walsham Harrison
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780872204126
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Law of Athens written by Alick Robin Walsham Harrison and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Law  Violence  and Community in Classical Athens

Download or read book Law Violence and Community in Classical Athens written by David Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia

Download or read book A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia written by Peter John Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive commentary on the Athenaion Politeia since that of J.E. Sandys in 1912. The Introduction discusses the history of the text; the contents, purpose, and sources of the work; its language and style; its date, and the evidence for revision after the completion of the original version; and the place of the work in the Aristotelian school. The Commentary concentrates on the historical and institutional facts which the work sets out to give, their sources, and their relation to other accounts. Textual and linguistic questions are also addressed.

Book Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens

Download or read book Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens written by Robert Johnson Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Litigious Athenian

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  • Author : Matthew R. Christ
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1998-11-20
  • ISBN : 9780801858635
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Litigious Athenian written by Matthew R. Christ and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-11-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos), Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In particular, they were aware that unscrupulous individuals might manipulate the laws and the legal process to serve their own purposes. Indeed, throughout the Classical Period, when Athenians gathered in public and private settings, they regularly discussed, debated, and complained about legal chicanery, or sukophantia. In The Litigious Athenian, Matthew Christ explores what this ancient discussion reveals about how Athenians conceived of and responded to problematic aspects of their collective legal experience. The transfer of significant judicial power from the elite Areopagus Council to the popular courts was a crucial step in the establishment of Athenian democracy, Christ notes, and Athenians took great pride in their legal system. They chose not to make significant changes to their legal institutions even though they could have done so at any time through a majority vote of the Assembly. Determining that the term sykophant was applied rhetorically rather than, as some have believed, to describe a specific subclass, Christ shows how the public debates over legal chicanery helped define the limits of ethical behavior under the law and in public life.

Book Litigation and Cooperation

Download or read book Litigation and Cooperation written by Lene Rubinstein and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syn�goroi are widely known in Athenian law to have served as supporting speakers and aids to the main prosecutors within a courtroom. Lene Rubinstein argues that these people were an important part of court practice and social and political litigation, though largely ignored in many previous studies of Athenian politics. Her study draws extensively on the speeches of syn�goroi , revealing their multi-functionality as witnesses, as co-speakers alongside the main prosecutor and as part of a collaborative legal team.

Book Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts

Download or read book Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts written by Chris Carey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field of Greek law to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens from a variety of perspectives.

Book Disputes and Democracy

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  • Author : Steven Johnstone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780292767744
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Disputes and Democracy written by Steven Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens

Download or read book Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens written by Andrew Alwine and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the world’s first democracy, but no book so far has been dedicated solely to the study of enmity in ancient Athens. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is a long-overdue analysis of the competitive power dynamics of Athenian honor and the potential problems these feuds created for democracies. The citizens of Athens believed that harming one’s enemy was an acceptable practice and even the duty of every honorable citizen. They sought public wins over their rivals, making enmity a critical element in struggles for honor and standing, while simultaneously recognizing the threat that personal enmity posed to the community. Andrew Alwine works to understand how Athenians addressed this threat by looking at the extant work of Attic orators. Their speeches served as the intersection between private vengeance and public sanction of illegal behavior, allowing citizens to engage in feuds within established parameters. This mediation helped support Athenian democracy and provided the social underpinning to allow it to function in conjunction with Greek notions of personal honor. Alwine provides a framework for understanding key issues in the history of democracy, such as the relationship between private and public realms, the development of equality and the rule of law, and the establishment of individual political rights. Serving also as a nuanced introduction to the works of the Attic orators, Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is an indispensable addition to scholarship on Athens.

Book Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens

Download or read book Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, are new for this volume. . . . "Each of the introductions to the individual speeches is accompanied by a convenient outline, entitled ‘Key Information', of the important details about the dispute; this feature will be particularly welcome to undergraduates and other beginners, for whom Athenian forensic speeches often present at first glance a welter of soap opera-like complexity. In the summary that precedes Against Neaera, for example, the subheadings include 'Speaker', Supporting Speaker', 'Defendant', ‘Other Individuals' (particularly helpful), ‘Action', 'Penalty' and ‘Date'. Having this information collected in one handy location is very useful indeed. "One minor yet remarkably useful feature is that [Wolpert and Kapparis] have placed all cross-references to speeches included in the collection in bold typeface. This allows the reader to know immediately whether he need only flip the pages to see the passage in question or must reach for another volume. It is hoped that this will encourage busy undergraduates to take the trouble to follow up a cross-reference. "The introduction truly shines. Without getting bogged down in debatable minutiae, it provides a remarkably detailed and clear account of the law and oratory of ancient Athens. Divided into five sections, it begins with an account of Athenian legal development from the Draconian and Solonian periods to the fourth century. It then tackles Athenian politics and society, the court system (a particularly helpful section), the Attic orators (with a substantial biographical sketch of each orator whose speeches appear in the volume), and rhetorical technique and style. The introduction could even be used in a course where no speeches are read but students need to be given a quick, solid initiation into the legal culture of the classical period." --Classical Review

Book The Athenian Republic

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  • Author : Raphael Sealey
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 1990-10-01
  • ISBN : 027107292X
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Athenian Republic written by Raphael Sealey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces continuity in the development of the Athenian constitution, whereas previous studies have usually looked for catastrophic changes. Sealey selects three features of Athenian law which are important for the structure of society and the location of authority: (1) the legal status, and to a lesser extent the socioeconomic condition, of the different kinds of inhabitants of Attica; (2) the distinction, recognized in the fourth century, between "laws" and "decrees," analyzing what the Athians understood by "law"; and (3) the development of the Athenian courts. At an early stage the Athenians conceived the ideal of the rule of law and adhered to it continuously. They did so by means of a static concept of law and maintenance of an independent judiciary. The book is designed to be of importance not only for specialists in classical studies but for general historians, political scientists, and those concerned with the history of law. The book is within the reach of an advanced undergraduate and graduate audience.

Book Solon the Athenian  the Poetic Fragments

Download or read book Solon the Athenian the Poetic Fragments written by Maria Noussia Fantuzzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the authoritative voice of Solon of Athens by an integrated literary, historical, and philological approach and the use of a range of hermeneutic frameworks, from literary theory to oral poetics.

Book Introduction to Greek Legal Science

Download or read book Introduction to Greek Legal Science written by George Miller Calhoun and published by Scientia Verlag. This book was released on 1977 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Athens  Procedure

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  • Author : Alick Robin Walsham Harrison
  • Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Law of Athens Procedure written by Alick Robin Walsham Harrison and published by Oxford : Clarendon P. This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the various judicial procedures available for remedying wrongs, whether against the state or the individual, in ancient Athens. It begins by identifying and describing the specific functions of the different judicial organs provided by the state to make and enforce judicial decisions. Among these are the magistrates, which are further classified into the archons, the Eleven, the Forty, the eisagogeis, and the nautodikai and the xenodikai. Otherorgans include the street and market officials, the apodektai, the accounting officers, the military officers, the extraordinary officers, and the demarchs. Cases were settled in homicide courts, thediskasteries, and the ekklesia and the boule. The state also allowed the use of private and public arbitrators, who were subject to certain rules laid down by the state and whose decisions were deemed legally binding. The book then traces the development of the concept of process at law in Athens during the classical period. This period saw the introduction of such concepts as the heliaia, special pleas, documentary evidences, and witness testimonies. Different types of suits and proceduralremedies also were made available to Athenians who were wronged and seeking redress. In the final chapter, particular focus is given to the special court proceedings for public wrongs brought before adikastery by a person seeking redress for an improper administrative act of a magistrate or a public body or seeking a final decision on a person's legal qualification to enter upon some particular status.

Book List of Doctoral Dissertations in History Now in Progress at Universities in the United States and the Dominion of Canada

Download or read book List of Doctoral Dissertations in History Now in Progress at Universities in the United States and the Dominion of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: