How successful were the Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as 'law' both in the 'polis' and internationally? How did the courts attempt to implement this ideal, and how successful were they? This collection of essays sets out to answer these questions.
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How successful were the Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as 'law' both in the 'polis' and internationally? How did the courts attempt to implement this ideal, and how successful were they? This collection of essays sets out to answer these questions.
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New. 0715631179. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--240 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction * I Law, religion, and the sources of legitimacy * 1 Antigone the lawyer, or the ambiguities of Nomos * 2 What are sacred laws? * 3 Supplication and the law * II The role of law in the Athenian courts * 4 The laws of Athens: publication, preservation, consultation * 5 Offence and procedure in Athenian law * III Legal arguments in the attic orators * 6 Keeping to the point * 7 Arguing from 'precedent': modern perspectives on Athenian practice * IV The rule of law outside Athens * 8 The rule of law in Gortyn * 9 Justifying territorial claims in classical and Hellenistic Greece: the beginnings of international law. --DESCRIPTION: "How successful were the Athenians and other Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as 'law' both in the polis and internationally? How did the courts attempt to implement this ideal, and how successful were they? " "This important synthesis of current scholarship on law and its implementation in Ancient Greece sets out to answer these questions, concentrating on the following themes: law, religion and the sources of legitimacy; substance and procedure; legal arguments in court; documents and witnesses; and law in an international context." There is much in this volume to interest not only specialists in Greek law, but also those concerned more generally with both Greek history and the history of law. --with a bonus offer--
