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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Cover -- WRITING AUTHORITY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1-LAW, JUSTICE, AND LEGISLATION IN EARLY GREECE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perspectives on Early Greek Law and Justice, Ancient and Modern -- 3. The Organization of the Argument -- 2-APPROACHES TO EARLY GREEK LEGAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE -- 1. The Problem of Athenian Historiography for Early Greek Law -- 2. The Moral Authority of Epic -- 3. Greek Adjudication in Context: Legal Cultures and Legal Anthropology -- 3-LEGAL CULTURE IN GREECE BEFORE WRITTEN LAW -- 1. An Overview of Dispute Settlement before Written Law |
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2. Automatic Self-Help and the Limits of a Normativist Approach -- 3. Disputes concerning Clearly Disapproved Behavior (A) -- 4. Serious Disagreements over Courses of Action or Approved/Disapproved Behavior (B) -- 5. Disputes Arising from Personal Challenges, Threats, or Other Verbal Insults (C) -- 6. Disputes Involving Seizure of Property Leading to Loss of Status or Dishonor (D) -- 7. Seizure or Loss of Property Involving a Sense of ""Breach of Contract"" (E) -- 8. Conclusions on the Nature of Early Greek Dispute Settlement -- 4-JUDICIAL EQUALITY, LITERACY, AND WRITTEN LAW |
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1. The Problem of Demands for Judicial Equality -- 2. Literacy in the Greek World and the Appearance of Written Law -- 3. Memory, Malfeasance, and Elite Adjudication under Written Law -- 5-ELITES AND THE WORLD OF THE EMERGING POLIS -- 1. Legal Cultures and Social Change: The Geometric Household and Homeric Reciprocity -- 2. Demographics, Oikoi, and the Disembedded Economy -- 3. Putting Together the Polis: Synoikismos and the Elite -- 4. Cohesion or Conflict? Exclusion, Inclusion, and Tyranny -- 6-ARISTOCRATIC ANXIETIES AND THE WRITING OF LAWS -- 1. Rituals, Reciprocity, and the Elites |
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2. The Movement of Property in the Early Polis -- 3. Retributive Murder, Funerary Cult, and Ostentation -- 4. Political Office and Magisterial Misconduct -- 7-CONCLUSION: Writing and Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
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Greek language -- Writing
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Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
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Greek language -- Writing
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Wymiar sprawiedliwości (prawo greckie).
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501758164 |
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1501758160 |
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