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The law in classical Athens / Douglas M. MacDowell.
LIBRA K432 .M33
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDowell, Douglas M. (Douglas Maurice)
- Series:
- Aspects of Greek and Roman life.
- Aspects of Greek and Roman life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law, Greek.
- Law--Greece--Athens.
- Law.
- Greece--Athens.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1978.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Growth of a Legal System
- I Judgements in Early Greece
- Introduction 10
- Primitive disputes 11
- Kings 13
- Elders and people 16
- The trial on the shield of Achilles 18
- Public opinion 21
- II Magistrates and Juries
- Kings and arkhons 24
- The Areopagos 27
- The Eliaia 29
- Democratic juries 33
- The allotment of jurors to courts 35
- III The Code of Laws
- Drakon and Solon 41
- Laws and decrees 43
- The reinscription of the laws 46
- Legislation by nomothetai 48
- Graphe paranomon 50
- IV Prosecutors and Cases
- Volunteer prosecutors 53
- What the laws specified 54
- Types of case 57
- Public prosecutors 61
- Sycophants 62
- Part 2 The Scope of the Law
- V Personal Status
- Citizens by birth 67
- Citizenship conferred on aliens 70
- Outlawry and disfranchisement (atimia) 73
- Aliens 75
- Resident aliens (metics) 76
- Privileged aliens 78
- Slaves 79
- Freedmen 82
- Public slaves 83
- VI The Family
- Control of dependants and of an oikos 84
- Marriage 86
- Concubinage 89
- Children 91
- Succession by legitimate sons 92
- Heiresses 95
- Intestate succession by other relatives 98
- Adoption and wills 99
- Claiming an inheritance 102
- VII Death
- The funeral 109
- Homicide and the family 109
- Kinds of homicide 113
- Procedure in homicide cases 118
- The use of apagoge for homicide 120
- VIII Assault and Abuse
- Battery and deliberate wounding 123
- Sexual offences 124
- Restriction of liberty 126
- Slander 126
- Hybris 129
- IX Property
- Property and owners 133
- Land and buildings 134
- Mines 137
- Sale 138
- Lease 140
- Loans and security 142
- Procedures for claiming property 145
- Theft 147
- Damage 148
- Enforcement of property rights 153
- X Life in the Community
- Work 155
- Trade 155
- Town regulations 159
- Military service 159
- Liturgies 161
- Debt to the state 164
- Public officials: dokimasia 167
- Public officials: apokheirotonia and eisangelia 169
- Public officials: euthyna 170
- Corruption and improper participation in public business 172
- XI Treason
- Tyranny and subversion of democracy 175
- Betrayal 176
- Misleading the people 179
- Informing (menysis) 181
- Eisangelia 183
- The trial of the Arginousai generals 186
- Execution ordered by the Boule 189
- Report (apophasis) from the Areopagos 190
- XII Religion
- Sacred law 192
- Festivals 194
- Impiety 197
- Atheism 200
- Part 3 Legal Proceedings
- XIII Arbitration
- Private arbitration 203
- Deme and tribe judges 206
- Public arbitration 207
- Appeal and annulment of public arbitration 209
- XIV Barring Legal Action
- Diamartyria 212
- Paragraphe 214
- Diamartyria in the fourth century 217
- Paragraphe and the role of the jury 219
- XV Foreigners, Merchants, and the Legal Calendar
- Treaty cases (dikai apo symbolon) 220
- The polemarch and the xenodikai 221
- The Athenian Empire 224
- The legal calendar and the nautodikai 228
- The mercantile laws and monthly cases 231
- XVI Trial and Punishment
- Initiation by a magistrate 235
- Initiation by a private individual 237
- Preliminary proceedings 240
- Evidence 242
- The trial 247
- Penalties 254
- Pardon and amnesty 258.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 080141198X
- OCLC:
- 3770510
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