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Author: Adriaan Lanni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0521198801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.
Author: David Phillips
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0472035916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author: Douglas Maurice MacDowell
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780500400371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Plato
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 573
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Edward Harris
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2004-03-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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: Chris Carey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9004377891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athenian constitution as well as the use of law(s) in the courts, the nature of law itself, and the elusiveness of a definition of ‘abuse’. An introduction sketches the major developments in the field over the last century.
Author: Edward M. Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-17
Total Pages: 21
ISBN-13: 113945689X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Elisabeth Meier Tetlow
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-12-28
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780826416285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.
Author: Raphael Sealey
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1469610248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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: Edward M. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0199899169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Law in Action in Democratic Athens is the first extensive study of the importance of the rule of law in Athenian democracy.
