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Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens
Author: Adriaan Lanni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-27
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139452657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Law and Order in Ancient Athens
Author: Adriaan Lanni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0521198801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.
Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Richard Garner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1317800516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
Author: David Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-10-05
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521388375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Democratic Law in Classical Athens
Author: Michael Gagarin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1477320377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece
Author: Edward Harris
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2004-03-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How 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.
Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens
Author: Vasileios Adamidis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1317168429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens
Author: Konstantinos Kapparis
Publisher: Intersectionality in Classical
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474446730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at existing fragmentary evidence largely from speeches, Kapparis reveals that it unambiguously suggests that free women were far from invisible in the legal system and the life of the polis. In the first part of the book Kapparis discusses the actual cases which included women as litigants, and the second part interprets these cases against the legal, social, economic and cultural background of classical Athens. In doing so he explores how factors such as gender, religion, women's empowerment and the rise of the Attic hetaira as a cultural icon intersected with these cases and ultimately influenced the construction of the speeches.
Greek Law in Its Political Setting
Author: Lin Foxhall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780198140856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between law and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Emanating from several scholarly traditions, they offer a range of contrasting but complementary insights rarely collected together. What emerges clearly is that law in Greece only takes on its full meaning in a broadly political context. Dynamic tensions govern the relationships between this semi-autonomous legal arena and other spheres of life. An ideology of equality before the law was juxtaposed with a practical reality of individuals' unequal abilities to cope with it. It is hard to draw firm lines between the settlement of cases in court and the spill-over of legal actions into the agora, the streets, the fields, and the houses. Hence it is hardly surprising if justice can all too easily give way to justification.
