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Greek law in its political setting : justifications not justice / edited by L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis.

Title
Greek law in its political setting : justifications not justice / edited by L. Foxhall and A.D.E. Lewis.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Foxhall, Lin.
  • Lewis, A. D. E.
Description
172 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between law and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Emanating from several scholarly traditions, they offer a range of contrasting but complementary insights rarely collected together. What emerges clearly is that law in Greece only takes on its full meaning in a broadly political context. Dynamic tensions govern the relationships between this semi-autonomous legal arena and other spheres of life. An ideology of equality before the law was juxtaposed with a practical reality of individuals' unequal abilities to cope with it. It is hard to draw firm lines between the settlement of cases in court and the spill-over of legal actions into the agora, the streets, the fields, and the houses. Hence it is hardly surprising if justice can all too easily give way to justification.
Subject
Law, Greek
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-165) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction / Lin Foxhall and Andrew Lewis -- 2. Written in Stone? Liberty, Equality, Orality, and the Codification of Law / Rosalind Thomas -- 3. Deconstructing Gortyn: When is a Code a Code? / John K. Davies -- 4. Oaths and Dispute Settlement in Ancient Greek Law / Gerhard Thur -- 5. Even Dogs have Erinyes: Sanctions in Athenian Practice and Thinking / Margaretha Debrunner Hall -- 6. Plato on the Treatment of Heretics / Trevor J. Saunders -- 7. Lysias against Nikomachos: The Fate of the Expert in Athenian Law / Stephen Todd -- 8. The Law and the Lady: Women and Legal Proceedings in Classical Athens / Lin Foxhall.
ISBN
0198140851 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^95041087^
OCLC
  • 33102454
  • SCSB-10308474
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library