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Rhetoric and the law of Draco

by: Carawan, E.

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Category: Ancient Greek Law / Ancient Roman Law
Code: 15305
ISBN-13: 9780198150862 / 978-0-19-815086-2
ISBN-10: 0198150865 / 0-19-815086-5
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 408
Book Condition: New
Comments: xx, 408 p. ; 23 cm. / Original Edition, not print on demand

Trials for murder and manslaughter in ancient Athens are preserved in a singularly full and revealing record. The earliest surviving speeches were written for such proceedings, and the laws governing such trials - laws that tradition ascribes to Draco himself - also survive in large part. These documents bear witness to the birth of the jury trial and of democratic rhetoric. This book, the first study of its kind, offers a systematic interpretation of Draco's law and the legal reasoning that grew out of it. The author outlines the historical development (7th to 4th centuries BCE), and then analyses the surviving speeches to unravel the underlying issues and practical consequences.
 
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Rhetoric and the law of Draco

by: Carawan, E.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198150862 / 978-0-19-815086-2
  • ISBN-03: 0198150865 / 0-19-815086-5
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

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