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Title Details:
Ancient Greek Law
Authors: Youni, Maria
Delios, Athanasios
Subject: LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > LEGAL SCIENCES > GENERAL THEORY AND METHODS > HISTORY OF LAW
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > LEGAL SCIENCES > GENERAL THEORY AND METHODS > HISTORY OF LAW > ANCIENT GREEK LAW
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > LEGAL SCIENCES > INTERNAL LAW > PUBLIC LAW
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > LEGAL SCIENCES > INTERNAL LAW > CIVIL LAW
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > LEGAL SCIENCES > INTERNAL LAW > CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY (INCLUDING THE PERIOD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT)
Keywords:
Ancient Greece
Law-making
Courts
Family law
Inheritance law
Law of property
Law of transactions
Administration of justice
Law of persons
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Abstract:
The book starts with the notions of law and justice in Homeric society, and comtinues with the origins of written law, focusing on the motives and purposes that led to the creation of the first written laws, and to the terms used for legal norms. The chapter on the law of Sparta studies the Lycurgan legislation, the established authorities, the categories of status (citizens, perioikoi, hilots and slaves), the administration of justice and the provisions of civil law. The study of the law of Gortyn focuses on magistrates and other authorities, personal status, inheritance, administration of justice and torts. The following chapters examine thoroughly the law of classical Athens, starting with the evolution of law-making from the first legislators to the legislative activity of the Assembly and to the establishment of a new procedure in 403/2, as well as the graphe paranomon. As fae asthe administration of justice is concerned, the focus is on the stages of procedure at the courts of Heliaia, on the limited capacity of other boards, and on the procedure of arbitration.After that personal status (citizens, women, aliens, metics, slaves), family law (marriage, dowry, parent-child relations, adoption and guardianship), are analysed as well as theinheritance (intestate and testamentary succession). The analysis of the law of property refers to the different categories of property, to the ways of acquisition, and to the restrictions on property, whereas the part on the law of transactions focuses on sale, lease, and loan. The next chapters examine the law of homicide (procedures, different categories of homicide), and the laws concerning crimes and torts against personality, family, and property). The final chapter studies the control of magistrates (before, during and after tenure), political crime (laws on treason, tyranny, subversion of the regime, and procedures in court).
Linguistic Editors: Liarmacopulus, Alexander
Technical Editors: Tsipouridou, Evangelia
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 08-11-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5667-97-9
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-135
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/8661
Bibliographic Reference: Youni, M., & Delios, A. (2023). Ancient Greek Law [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-135
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. The origins of law in ancient Greece
2. The law of Sparta
3. The law of Gortyn
4. Law-making in classical Athens
5. The courts of classical Athens
6. Personal status
7. The family in classical Athens
8. Inheritance
9. Property and transactions
10. Life and death
11. Crime and punishment
12. Control of magistrates and political crime
Number of pages 320
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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