Early Greek LawDrawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. |
Contents
Law in Human Society | 1 |
The Settlement of Disputes in Early Greek Literature | 19 |
The Literary Evidence | 51 |
The Inscriptional Evidence | 81 |
Justice in Early Greece | 99 |
The Emergence of Written Law | 121 |
Conclusion | 143 |
Abbreviations and Bibliography | 147 |
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Index Locorum | 163 |
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