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Droit grec --- Greek law --- Grieks recht --- Law [Greek ] --- Recht [Grieks ] --- Law, Greek --- Law, Ancient --- Greece --- Law, Greek. --- Droit grec. --- Griekse oudheid. --- Recht. --- Law, ancient period --- Law, ancient period.

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The use of writing in the development of Greek law was unique. In this comparative study Professor Gagarin shows the reader how Greek law developed and explains why it became so different from the legal systems with which most legal historians are familiar. While other early communities wrote codes of law for academic or propaganda purposes, the Greeks used writing extensively to make their laws available to a relatively large segment of the community. On the other hand, the Greeks made little use of writing in litigation whereas other cultures used it extensively in this area, often putting written documents at the heart of the judicial process. Greek law thereby avoided becoming excessively technical and never saw the development of a specialised legal profession. This book will be of interest to those with an interest in the history of law, as well as ancient historians.

Law, Greek. --- Law, Greek --- Droit grec --- Language. --- Langage --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Greek law --- Law, Ancient --- Language --- Written communication --- History. --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication

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Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Forensic orations --- Oratory, Ancient. --- Law, Greek. --- Sophists (Greek philosophy) --- Discours grecs --- Débats judiciaires --- Eloquence antique --- Droit grec --- Sophistes grecs --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Antiphon, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authorship. --- -Justice, Administration of --- -Law, Greek --- Oratory, Ancient --- -Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Greek law --- Law, Ancient --- Administration of justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Law --- Courts --- Arguments, Legal --- Legal arguments --- Oral pleading --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Trial practice --- Forensic oratory --- History --- History and criticism --- Law and legislation --- Antiphon --- -Antiphon --- -Authorship --- Criticism and interpretation --- Athens (Greece) --- -Civilization --- -History --- Sophists (Greek philosophy). --- Débats judiciaires --- -Greek law --- Greek orations --- Law, Greek --- Antifont, --- Antifonte, --- Antiphōn, --- Ἀντιφῶν, --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life.

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Homicide (Greek law) --- Draco --- Law, Greek --- Drakon --- Draco. --- Homicide (Greek law).

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"Provides an overall examination of Athenian law while focusing on neglected areas of study when the Athenian system differed from the familiar Roman or modern Western laws. Gagarin explains how these features worked and how the Athenian legal system was thus able to achieve outcomes that were fair and consistent with the actual laws of the city; he looks at, among other things, pre-trial negotiations, which could include the controversial torture of slaves; the performative nature of speaking before a jury that could consist of hundreds of jurors and the importance of adjusting one's rhetoric based on audience reactions; and the notions of justice and public benefit in arguing cases"--

Public law (Greek law) --- Justice, Administration of (Greek law) --- Democracy --- History --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- ancient Athens, Greek history, ancient Greece, Athenian law, ancient history, legal system, legal history, law, history of Greece, Greek law, ancient Greek law. --- Politique et gouvernement --- To 1500