Law and literature in ancient Greece / by Martín Laclau ; translated by Deirdre B. Jerry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laclau, Martín, author.

Contributor:

Jerry, Deirdre B., translator.

Series:

International studies in law and literature ; v. 1.

International studies in law and literature, 2773-191X ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Greek.

Law, Greek--Antiquities.

Law and literature--Greece--History.

Law and literature.

Greece--History.

Greece.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 183 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff, [2024]

Summary:

"In this work, one of Latin America's most renowned legal philosophers conducts a comprehensive survey of the ancient Greek understanding of the law, drawing on texts by poets (Hesiod), philosophers (Anaximander), playwrights (Aeschylus and Sophocles), and historians (Herodotus and Thucydides). The book ends with a finely detailed analysis of the relationship between language and reality in Aristotle, and the emergence of the notion of the system and its subsequent introduction into Roman law. The author's in-depth study of all these aspects makes this volume an essential reference for philosophers, jurists, and historians"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The notion of natural law in Greece and its introduction in Western legal thought

The notions of Dike and Nomos in Hesiod's poems

Justice and cosmos in Anaximander's philosophy

Justice and guilt in Aeschylus's plays

The message of Antigone

The understanding of history in Herodotus

Philosophy and politics in Thucydides's conception of history

Language and reality in Aristotle

Aristotle and the systematic nature of scientific knowledge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Laclau, Martín. Law and literature in ancient Greece

ISBN:

9789004686724

900468672X

OCLC:

1402018920