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Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens / Edwin Carawan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carawan, Edwin, author.
- Series:
- Cultural histories of the ancient world.
- Cultural histories of the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial process--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.
- Judicial process.
- Law, Greek--Political aspects--Greece--Athens.
- Law, Greek.
- Constitutional history--Greece--Athens--To 146 B.C.
- Constitutional history.
- Judicial process (Greek law).
- Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
- Athens (Greece).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 308 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped Athenian lawmaking. He also compares the judiciary of ancient Athens to that of the modern United States"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The People and the Law : Demos and Nomos
- Making Law and Mending the Constitution
- Judges and Lawmakers
- "Unlawful Action" (Paranoma) and the Case of the Arginousai Generals
- Privileged Characters: Aristocrates' Shield for Charidemos
- Outrage : The Case against Androtion
- Breaking the Bargain : The Case against Leptines' Law
- The Aftermath of Chaironeia
- The Crown Case Comes to Trial
- Law's Measure
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-3949-2
- OCLC:
- 1224562559
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