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The shape of Athenian law

by: Todd, S.C.

Price: 145,00 EURO

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Category: Ancient Greek Law / Ancient Roman Law
Code: 29496
ISBN-13: 9780198148944 / 978-0-19-814894-4
ISBN-10: 0198148941 / 0-19-814894-1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 433
Book Condition: Very good
Comments: Ex-Library

The Shape of Athenian Law
S. C. Todd
Clarendon Press

A systematic survey which sets out to reshape our understanding of the legal system of democratic Athens. It deals extensively with subjects ...

Description
Unlike its predecessors, this systematic survey of the law of Athens is based on explicit discussion of how the subject might be studied; and it incorporates topics like the democratic political system and social structure, which are too often regarded as being outside the scope of law. At its heart lies an attempt to reshape our understanding of how the Athenian legal system operated; but it also deals extensively with subjects such as slavery, inheritance, maritime trade, and patterns of land-holding. The author draws primarily on the hundred or so surviving law-court speeches of the Attic orators, but also uses Athenian comedy, public inscriptions, and various historical and philosophical texts. Technical and legal terms, ancient and modern, are explained in a comprehensive glossary. This book should be accessible to those interested in social history and the anthropology of law, as well as to historians of the ancient world.

Contents:
Part 1 Method: the legacy of Athenian law?; comparisons, assumptions and the concept of "shape"; sources of law - sources of information; sources of law - legal sources; the shaping of Athenian law. Part 2 Procedure: the personnel of procedure; the range of procedures; the stages of procedure; procedure in action. Part 3 Substance: personal status; personal relations; relations between persons and things; relations within the "polis"; relations with the "polis"; relations with people outside the "polis".


Subjects:
Athens (Greece) Social life and customs
Droit grec
Greece Athens
Law
Law Greece Athens
Law, Greek
Manners and customs


ix, 433 pages ; 22 cm
 
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The shape of Athenian law

by: Todd, S.C.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198148944 / 978-0-19-814894-4
  • ISBN-03: 0198148941 / 0-19-814894-1
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993

Price: 145,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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