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• Introduction
• 1. The Archaic Origins of Character Evidence: From Homer to Classical Athens
• 2. Incentives for Wide Use of Character Evidence in the Athenian Legal System
• 3. Greek Ideas of 'Character'
• 4. Methods of Providing Evidence from Character in Athenian Courts
• 5. Greek Perceptions of 'Personality' Applied in the Athenian Courts
• 6. Purposes of Character Evidence in the Courts of Athens - Predominance of Law or Rhetoric? Conclusions.
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There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory and practice devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. The widespread use of character evidence in every aspect of argumentation can be traced to the Greek ideas of 'character' and 'personality', the inductive method of reasoning, and the social, political and institutional structures of the ancient Greek polis. According to the author's proposed method of interpretation, character evidence was not a means of diverting the jury's attention away from the legal issues; instead, it was a constructive and relevant way of developing a legal argument.
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A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, together with up-to-date bibliographic references, and commentary. The sources collected here range widely; Ager presents an exhaustive record of documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble between two tiny city-states to the resolution of major conflicts separating the great powers of the day. In addition, Ager's introduction sets the documents in historical context and outlines distinctions among categories of arbitration. The work also includes indices to literary passages, inscriptions, persons, places, subjects, and Greek and Latin terms in the documents. This collection of many previously inaccessible texts will become a primary resource for any scholar or student working in the field of Hellenistic history.
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A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, together with up-to-date bibliographic references, and commentary. The sources collected here range widely; Ager presents an exhaustive record of documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble between two tiny city-states to the resolution of major conflicts separating the great powers of the day. In addition, Ager's introduction sets the documents in historical context and outlines distinctions among categories of arbitration. The work also includes indices to literary passages, inscriptions, persons, places, subjects, and Greek and Latin terms in the documents. This collection of many previously inaccessible texts will become a primary resource for any scholar or student working in the field of Hellenistic history.
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• PREFACE xi INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE: THE PRELIMINARIES 13 CHAPTER ONE What Is Punishment? 15 Introduction 15 "Revenge" versus "Punishment": Rereading the Oresteia 18 Studying Punishment as Authority: Reading the Prometheus Bound 25 Precis 35 CHAPTER TWO Institutional Context 39 Introduction 39 Penal Institutions and Democratic Power 40 The Lay Prosecutor and the Parameters of Judgment 45 CHAPTER THREE Cultural Context 50 Anger/Orge 50 ThE Agon and Honor 59 Reciprocity 62 Social Memory, Social Knowledge 65 Language 68 Conclusion 72 CHAPTER FOUR Punishment and Its Tragic Problems 73 The Mythic Imaginary 73 Method 75 Disease and Remedy 77 Power Tyranny, and Law 86 Conclusion 94 PART TWO: THE PROCESS OF PUNISHING 97 CHAPTER FIVE Initiation, Part One 99 Knowledge, Power, Action 99 Investigation 102 Initiation: Metics, Proxenoi, and Xenoi 107 Initiation: Slaves 109 Initiation: Women 111 CHAPTER SIX Initiation, Part Two 122 The Male Citizen Prosecutor 122 Back to the Bees and Wasps Again 128 The Household: Women and Men Together 134 City as Collective 141 CHAPTER SEVEN The Negotiation of Desert, Part One 147 The Magic of Speech 147 Pity and Anger 148 The First Norm of Public Agency: Deserving to Punish and Dispelling Charges of Sycophancy 151 CHAPTER EIGHT The Negotiation of Desert, Part Two 168 Introduction 168 The Second Norm of Public Agency: Using Social Memory and Law 168 The Rule of Judgment versus the Rule of Law 179 The Rule of Law in Plato and Aristotle 183 The Third Norm of Public Agency: Shaping the Democratic Community 190 CHAPTER NINE Execution 197 War Peace, and the Formalism of Punishment 197 The Details: Punishments and Their Executors 200 Tvo Forms of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting 202 The Symbolism of Remembering and Forgetting 205 War and Peace, the Body and Silence 213 Punishments of Reintegration 224 Punishments that Redefine the "Whole" Community 232 The Amnesty 237 PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONVERSATION 243 CHAPTER TEN Plato's Paradigm Shifts 245 The Symbol of Leontios 245 Reform over Reciprocity 247 The Erasure of Orge 251 Undoing the Athenian "Principle of the Public": The Republic 257 The Just City and the Power of the Symbol 263 The Incurables and the Necessity for Anger/Orge in the Just City of the Laws 277 CHAPTER ELEVEN Aristotle's Compromises 282 On Justice and Desert 282 EPILOGUE: The Reform of Prometheus and Promethean Rebellion 293 APPENDIXES A. The Number of Magistrates in Athens 305 B. The Nature and Scope of Arbitration in Athens 317 C. The Relative Frequency of Penal Words within Each Orator 323 D. Further Argument about the Decree of Cannonus 324 E. Catalog of Cases of Punishing (or Attempts at Punishing) in Tragedy 326 ENDNOTES 333 BIBLIOGRAPHY 405 INDEX 431.
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For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window into democratic Athens's fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fuelled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in detail the cultural context of this conversation, Allen shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Broad in scope, this book offers both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment.
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• Nociones elementales sobre el Egipto faraónico
• Maat y su perspectiva histórico-jurídica
• Justicia, ley y derecho
• La administración de justicia, la aplicación de la ley y el ejecicio del derecho
• El derecho arbitral y las fundaciones
• El derecho del trabajo
• El derecho de familia y el estatuto jurídico de la mujer
• Los contratos civiles.

• Chapter 1. Oikos, Inheritance, Marriage - Divorce, Sexual Offences, Personal Status
• Chapter 2. Agora, Trade, Finances, Leases, Coinage, Animals 62
• Chapter 3. Polis, Penal Regulations, Constitution (Politeia), Procedure, Cleanliness, Property and Debts, Establishing Colonies, Polis-Institutions, Building, Naval Affairs, Inter-polis Relations.
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In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with relevant selections from Greek literature and epigraphical testimonies. A wide area of legislative activity in major and minor Greek city-states, ranging from Delphoi and Athens in mainland Greece, to Gortyn in Crete, Olbia in South Russia and Aegean cities including Ephesos, Samos and Thasos, is covered. Ilias Arnaoutoglou divides legislation into three main areas: * the household - marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, sexual offences and personal status * the market-place - trade, finance, sale, coinage and leases * the state - constitution, legislative process, public duties, colonies, building activities, naval forces, penal regulations, religion, politics and inter-state affairs. Dr Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts and also provides fresh translations of the legal documents themselves.
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• Introduction
• The stela of the laws of Hammurabi and the representation of political power
• Royal legitimization through the establishment of justice
• The laws of Hammurabi as a royal inscription
• Scribes and statutes
• Excursus : scribes and scribal education
• Adoption in the laws of Hammurabi
• The legal authority of the laws of Hammurabi
• The afterlife of the laws of Hammurabi : the continuation of scribal improvisation outside of mesopotamia and the creation of commentaries in Mesopotamia
• Conclusion

Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his patronage. This book offers an innovative interpretation of the Laws of Hammurabi. Ancient scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a set of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribes in composing statutes that manifest systematization and implicit legal principles, and inserted the Laws of Hammurabi into the form of a royal inscription, shrewdly reshaping the genre. This tradition of scribal improvisation on a set of traditional cases continued outside of Mesopotamia. It influenced biblical law and the law of the Hittite empire significantly. The Laws of Hammurabi was also witness to the start of another stream of intellectual tradition. It became the subject of formal commentaries, marking a profound cultural shift. Scribes related to it in ways that diverged from prior attitudes; it became an object of study and of commentary, a genre that names itself as dependent on another text. The famous Laws of Hammurabi is here given the extensive attention it continues to merit.
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• Introduction Chapter One: The Stela of the Laws of Hammurapi and the Representation of Political Power Chapter Two: Royal Legitimization Through the Establishment of Justice Chapter Three: The Laws of Hammurabi as a Royal Inscription Chapter Four: Scribes and Statutes Excursus: Scribes and Scribal Education Chapter Five: Adoption in the Laws of Hammurabi Chapter Six: The Legal Authority of the Laws of Hammurabi Chapter Seven: The Afterlife of the Laws of Hammurabi: The Continuation of Scribal Improvisation Outside of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Commentaries in Mesopotamia Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Bibliography.
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Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his patronage. This book offers an innovative interpretation of the Laws of Hammurabi. Ancient scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a set of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribes in composing statutes that manifest systematization and implicit legal principles, and inserted the Laws of Hammurabi into the form of a royal inscription, shrewdly reshaping the genre. This tradition of scribal improvisation on a set of traditional cases continued outside of Mesopotamia. It influenced biblical law and the law of the Hittite empire significantly. The Laws of Hammurabi was also witness to the start of another stream of intellectual tradition. It became the subject of formal commentaries, marking a profound cultural shift. Scribes related to it in ways that diverged from prior attitudes; it became an object of study and of commentary, a genre that names itself as dependent on another text. The famous Laws of Hammurabi is here given the extensive attention it continues to merit.
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• Part 1. Documents from Adab
• Part 2. Documents from Isin
• Part 3. Documents frmo the Umma region
• Part 4. Documents from other locations
• Part 5. Documents of uncertain provenance

"Transliteration, photographs, and commentary on hundreds of some of the earliest cuneiform documents from ancient Mesopotamia in the Sumerian language."-- Provided by publisher

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• -2. Le droit de famille.-
• -3. Le droit de propriété.-
• -4. Le droit des obligations.

This book makes available to scholars for the first time transcriptions of 313 clay tablets preserved in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The tablets date from the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who presided over the destiny of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 556 B.C. until its conquest by the Persians in 539 B.C.. Representing a significant addition to the body of primary sources that illuminate the social and economic history of this transitional era, these clay documents include mainly administrative records and legal transactions, along with a few letters. Each tablet was written in the Akkadian language using the cuneiform script invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.. Paul-Alain Beaulieu's transcriptions of the tablets are presented in autographed facsimile copies. The author also provides an introduction to the volume, a register and descriptive catalogue of the texts, and indexes of personal names, geographical names, and names of gods and temples appearing in the texts. This outstanding collection affords important new access to the history of Mesopotamian civilization during its last phase as an independent political and cultural entity.
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