(Source: University of Texas Press)
The University of Texas Press has published
a new book on Ancient Greek Law.
DESCRIPTION
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.
CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction (Adriaan Lanni and
Robert W. Wallace)
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1. Administering Justice in
Ancient Athens: Framework and Core Principles (Robert W. Wallace)
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2. Revenge and Punishment (Eva
Cantarella)
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3. Hyperides’s Against
Athenogenes and the Athenian Law on Agreements (Michael Gagarin)
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4. Slaves Operating Businesses:
Legal Ramifications for Ancient Athens—and for Modern Scholarship (Edward E.
Cohen)
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5. Toward a New Shape of the
Relationship between Public and Private Law in Ancient Greece (Alberto Maffi)
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6. “Heiliges Recht” and
“Heilige Gesetze”: Law, Religion, and Magic in Ancient Greece (Martin
Dreher)
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7. Summary Fines in Greek
Inscriptions and the Question of “Greek Law” (Lene Rubinstein)
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8. Soft Law in Ancient Greece? (Julie Velissaropoulos-Karakostas)
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9. From Anthropology to
Sociology: New Directions in Ancient Greek Law Research (Adriaan Lanni)
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10. Oral Law in Ancient Greece?
(Mogens Herman Hansen)
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11. The Future of Classical
Oratory (Gerhard Thür)
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Contributors
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Index
Locorum
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Index
For more information, see the website
of the publisher.
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