Law's Cosmos : Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory.

Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens' juridical discourse.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wohl, Victoria
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	To 1500 Forensic oratory. Law > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Law, Greek. Rhetoric, Ancient. Forensic oratory Law Law, Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Greece > Athens History
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Table of Contents:

Cover page; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: before the law; Introduction: the rhetoric of law; Part I The Boundaries of Legal Discourse; Chapter 1 The world of law: oratory and authority; Chapter 2 Legal violence and the limit of justice; Part II The Legal Subject; Chapter 3 Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable; Chapter 4 Logos biou: law's life stories; Part III Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future; Chapter 5 Civic amnesia and legal memory: to remember and forget in the lawcourts; Chapter 6 Familylaw: legal genealogies.
Conclusion: the paradigmatic lawLaw, code; The law of law (demosthenes 24); The letter of the law and its spirit (lysias 10); The law, the noose, and the one-eyed man; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.

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