Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens: Essays on Law, Society, and Politics

ISBN: 9781107459519 出版年：2006 页码：520 Edward M Harris Cambridge University Press

Part I. Law and Constitutional History: 1. Solon and the spirit of the law in archaic and classical Greece 2. Pericles' praise of Athenian democracy 3. Antigone the lawyer, or the ambiguities of Nomos 4. How often did the Athenian assembly meet? 5. When did the Athenian assembly meet? 6. Demosthenes and the Theoric fund Part II. Law and Economy: 7. Law and economy 8. When is a sale not a sale? The riddle of Athenian technology for real security revisited 9. Apotimema: the terminology for real security in leases and dowry agreements 10. The liability of business partners in Athenian law 11. Did Solon abolish debt-bondage? 12. Notes on a lead letter from the Athenian Agora Part III. Law and Family: 13. Did the Athenians regard seduction as a crime worse than rape 14. Did rape exist in classical Athens? Further reflections on sexual violence in ancient Greece 15. Women and leading in classical Athens: a Horos re-examined 16. The date of Apollodorus' speech against Timotheus and its implications for Athenian history and legal procedure 17. A note on adoption and deme registration Part IV. Aspects of Procedure: 18. In the act or red-handed? Furtum manifestum and Apagoge to the eleven 19. How to kill in attic Greek: the semantic of the verb and its implication 20. The penalties for frivolous prosecution in Athenian law Part V. Envoi: Pheidippides the Legislator.