Use and abuse of law in the Athenian courts

Use and abuse of law in the Athenian courts / edited by Chris Carey, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Brenda Griffith-Williams.

This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subje...

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Other Authors: Carey, Christopher (Classicist) (Editor), Giannadaki, Ifigeneia (Editor), Griffith-Williams, Brenda (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 419.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Subjects:
Courts > Greece > Athens.
Practice of law (Greek law)
Law, Greek.
Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Chris Carey
  • Abuse is in the eye of the beholder / Michael Gagarin
  • The elasticity of Athenian law / Robin Osborne
  • The Athenian view of an Athenian trial / Edward M. Harris
  • Bridging the divide between public and private : dikē exoulēs and other hybrids / Chris Carey
  • Isaios 6 : a case of procedural abuse (and scholarly misunderstandings) / Brenda Griffith-Williams
  • Anakrisis and the framing of strategies of argumentation in Athenian public trials / Christos Kremmydas
  • The postponement of the trial by jury in Athens : the timing of the graphē paranomōn / László Horváth
  • Abusing legal procedures for impeding the legal process / Noboru Sato
  • Clauses out of context : partial citation of statutes in attic forensic oratory / Lene Rubinstein
  • Twisting the law in ancient Athens / Ilias Arnaoutoglou
  • (Re)constructing the Athenian legal system / Ifigeneia Giannadaki
  • Liturgies and the rhetoric of law in fourth century Athens : a case sudy on an antidosis (Dem. 42) / Kostas Apostolakis
  • Jurisdiction and jurisprudence in Demosthenes 23 Against Aristokrates / Victoria Wohl
  • 'Theft' as a metaphor for the abuse of legal process at Athens / S.C. Todd
  • Laws against laws : the Athenian ideology of legislation / Mirko Canevaro
  • Abuse of the eisangelia in the latter half of the fourth century BC / Eleni Volonaki
  • Athenian homicide law and the model penal code / David D. Phillips
  • Abuse of inheritance law in Isaios? / Rosalia Hatzilambrou.

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