Lawmaking and adjudication in archaic Greece / / Zinon Papakonstantinou
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| Autore: |
Papakonstantinou Zinon
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| Titolo: |
Lawmaking and adjudication in archaic Greece / / Zinon Papakonstantinou
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| Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (471 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 340.538 |
| Soggetto topico: | Justice, Administration of |
| Law, Greek | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; I. Greek Law and Greek Laws; Law and the everyday; The unity of Greek law; II. Law and Justice in Early Archaic Greece; Before the law; Divine justice; Beside the law; Conclusion; III. The Enactment of Law; Creating the law; The lawgivers; Conclusion; IV. Law in the Courts; Literacy, orality and law in archaic Greece; The judicial powers of civic officials; Δικασται ̀and other judicial authorities in archaic Greece; Popular courts in archaic Greece; The logistics of adjudication; Conclusion; V. Law in Everyday Life |
| Against the lawPerjury and negligence: the manipulation of archaic legal systems; (a) The oath; (b) Judges and magistrates; (c) Judicial curses; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix: From θεσμóϛ to νóμοϛ: the terminology of archaic Athenian law; Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index; Imprint Page | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece"" re-evaluates central aspects of the genesis and application of laws in the communities of archaic Greece, including the structure and function of legislative bodies, the composition of the courts, the administration of justice and the use and abuse of legal norms and procedures by litigants in the courts and everyday settings. Combining a detailed analysis of epigraphical and literary evidence and the application of a model of interpretation borrowed from cultural analyses of law, this book argues that far from being monolithic creations of arch |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece |
| ISBN: | 1-4725-0258-2 |
| 1-4725-0257-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463314403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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