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Law Connections
Required Reading
- Hans Julius Wolff, "Greek Legal History: Its Functions and
Potentialities", 1975 Washington University Law Quarterly 395
- Michael Gagarin, Early Greek Law 19-50 (1986)
- Jon Stratton, "Writing and the Concept of Law in Ancient Greece",
14 Visible Language 99 (1980)
- Raphael Sealy, The Justice of the Greeks 37-43, 51-58 (1994)
- "The Laws of Gortyn", in Hellenic Civilization
(G.W. Botsford and E.G. Sihler, eds., 1965)
- Douglas M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens 24-40, 41-49
(1978)
- Aristophanes, The Wasps
Recommended Reading
- Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution (1984)
- Alan L. Boegehold, The Lawcourts at Athens (1995)
- Robert J. Bonner, The Administration of Justice from Homer to
Aristotle (1938)
- Robert J. Bonner, Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens: The Genesis of the Legal
Profession
- G.W. Botsford & E.G. Sihler, eds., "Private and Criminal Law", in Hellenic
Civilization (1965)
- George M. Calhoun, The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient
Greece (1927)
- Christopher Carey, "Legal Space in Classical Athens", 41 Greece & Rome 172 (1994)
- Anton-Hermann Chroust, "Estate Planning in Hellenic Antiquity:
Aristotle's Last Will and Testament", 45 Notre Dame Lawyer 629
(1970)
- David Cohen, Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens (1995)
- David Cohen, Theft in Athenian Law (1983)
- David Cohen, "Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens", 117 Past &
Present 3 (1987)
- John K. Davies, "Deconstructing Gortyn: When is a Code a Code?", in Greek Law in its
Political Setting (L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., 1996)
- Neil Duxbury, "Foundations of Legal Tradition: The Case of Ancient
Greece", 9 Legal Studies 241 (1989)
- Christopher Faraone, "Molten Wax, Spilt Wine and Mutilated Animals: Sympathetic Magic in
Near Eastern and Early Greek Oath Ceremonies", 113 Journal of Hellenic Studies 60
(1993)
- Moses I. Finlay, Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens,
500-200 B.C.: The Horos Inscriptions (1985)
- Lin Foxhall, "The Law and the Lady: Women and Legal Proceedings in Classical Athens", in
Greek Law in its Political Setting (L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis eds., 1996)
- Kathleen Freeman, The Murder of Herodes, and Other Trials from the
Athenian Law Courts (1946)
- Michael Gagarin, Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law (1981)
- Louis Gernet, "Law and Prelaw in Ancient Greece", in The
Anthropology of Ancient Greece (1981)
Margaretha Debrunner Hall, "Even Dogs Have Erinyes: Sanctions in Athenian Practice and
Thinking", in Greek Law in its Political Setting (L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis eds., 1996)
- Edward M. Harris, "Law and Oratory", in Persuasion: Greek
Rhetoric in Action (Ian Worthington, ed., 1993)
- Eric Havelock, The Greek Concept of Justice (1978)
- S.C. Humphreys, "The Discourse of Law in Archaic and Classical Greece", 6 Law &
History Review 465 (1988)
- Sally Humphreys, "The Evolution of Legal Process in Ancient
Attica", in Tria Corda: Scritti in onore di Arnaldo Momigliano
(E. Gabba, ed., 1983)
- Sally Humphreys, "Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in
Classical Athens", 1 History and Anthropology 313 (1985)
- Virginia J. Hunter, Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320
B.C. (1994)
- J. Walter Jones, The Law and Legal Theory of the Greeks (1956)
- Roger Just, Women in Athenian Law and Life (1989)
- Henry T. King and Marc A. LeForestier, "Arbitration in Ancient Greece", 49 Dispute
Resolution Journal 38 (1994)
- Lambros E. Kotsiris, "An Antitrust Case in Ancient Greek Law", 22
International Lawyer 451 (1988)
- Wolfgang Kunkel, "Legal Thought in Greece and Rome", 65 Juridical
Review 1 (1953)
- "Legal Status in the Greek World", in Women's Life in Greece
and Rome: A Source Book in Translation (Mary R. Lefkowitz &
Maureen B. Fant, eds., 1992)
- Tony Lentz, "A Question of Credibility: Spoken versus Written
Inartistic Proof in Athenian Court", in Orality and Literacy in
Hellenic Greece (1989)
- Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Justice of Zeus (1971)
- Douglas M. MacDowell, Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators (1963)
- Douglas M. MacDowell, Spartan Law (1986)
- Dennis Peter Maio, "Politeia and Adjudication in Fourth-Century
B.C. Athens", 28 American Journal of Jurisprudence 16 (1983)
- Menander, The Arbitration
- David Cyrus Mirhady, "The Oath-Challenge in Athens", 41 Classical Quarterly 78
(1991)
- Robin Osborne, "Law in Action in Classical Athens", 105 Journal of Hellenic Studies
40 (1985)
- Martin Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of
Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens (1986)
- Cynthia B. Patterson, "Marriage and the Married Woman in Athenian
Law", in Women's History and Ancient History (Sarah B. Pomeroy,
ed., 1991)
- P.J. Rhodes, "The Athenian Code of Laws, 410-399 BC", 111 Journal of Hellenic
Studies 87 (1991)
- Kevin Robb, "The Witness in Heraclitus and Early Greek Law", 74
The Monist 638 (1991)
- Kevin Robb, Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece (1994)
(esp. chapters 3, 4 and 5)
- Raphael Sealey, Women and Law in Classical Greece (1990)
- Raphael Sealey, The Athenian Republic: Democracy or Rule of
Law? (1987)
- I.F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates (1989)
- Ronald Stroud, The Axones and Kyrbeis of Drakon and Solon (1979)
- Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, "Legends of the Greek Lawgivers", 20 Arethusa (1987)
- Rosalind Thomas, "Written in Stone? Equality, Orality and the Codification of Law", in
Greek Law in its Political Setting (L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis eds., 1996)
- Gerhard Thur, "Oaths and Dispute Settlement in Ancient Greek Law", in Greek Law in
its Political Setting (L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis eds., 1996)
- Stephen Todd, "The Purpose of Evidence in Athenian Courts", in
Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society (Paul
Cartledge et al. eds., 1990)
- Stephen Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (1993)
- George Toumborous, Parallel Legislations...Volume I - The Laws of Ancient Greece
(1959)
Suggestions for new Readings are always
appreciated.