Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37787-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 419, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athenian constitution as well as the use of law(s) in the courts, the nature of law itself, and the elusiveness of a definition of ‘abuse’. An introduction sketches the major developments in the field over the last century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carey, Chris

Giannadaki, Ifigeneia

Griffith-Williams, Brenda

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Chris Carey

Part 1 Conceptualising The System

1 Abuse Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Michael Gagarin

2 The Elasticity of Athenian Law
Robin Osborne

3 The Athenian View of an Athenian Trial
Edward M. Harris

4 Bridging the Divide Between Public and Private: dike exoules and Other Hybrids
Chris Carey

Part 2 Procedural Manoeuvres

5 Isaeus 6: A Case of Procedural Abuse (and Scholarly Misunderstandings)
Brenda Griffith-Williams

6 Anakrisis and Legal Argumentation in Athenian Public Trials
Christos Kremmydas

7 The Postponement of the Trial by Jury in Athens: The Timing of the graphe paranomon
László Horváth

8 Abusing Legal Procedures for Impeding the Legal Process
Noboru Sato

Part 3 The Rhetoric of Law

9 Clauses out of Context: Partial Citation of Statutes in Attic Forensic Oratory
Lene Rubinstein

10 Twisting the Law in Ancient Athens
Ilias Arnaoutoglou

11 (Re)constructing the Athenian Legal System
Ifigeneia Giannadaki

12 Liturgies and the Rhetoric of Law in Fourth Century Athens: A Case Study on an antidosis ([Dem.] 42)
Kostas Apostolakis

13 Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence in Demosthenes 23
Victoria Wohl

14 ‘Theft’ as a Metaphor for the Abuse of Legal Process at Athens
S.C. Todd

Part 4 Specific Areas of Law

15 Laws Against Laws: The Athenian Ideology of Legislation
Mirko Canevaro

16 Abuse of the eisangelia in the Latter Half of the Fourth Century BC
Eleni Volonaki

17 Athenian Homicide Law and the Model Penal Code
David D. Phillips

18 Abuse of Inheritance Law in Isaeus?
Rosalia Hatzilambrou

Glossary
Bibliography
Index of terms
Index of names and places
Index locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Carey is Emeritus Professor of Greek at University College London. He has published on Greek lyric, epic, drama, politics, oratory and law.

Ifigeneia Giannadaki is a Research Associate at University College London. Her publications focus on aspects of Athenian law and oratory. She is currently completing her Commentary on the Speech of Demosthenes, Against Androtion (Oxford University Press).

Brenda Griffith Williams is an an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London She has published A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios and articles on Athenian law and rhetoric.