Davis, G. (2011), 'Axones and Kurbeis: a new answer to an old problem', Historia 60/1, 1-35

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens, 2021

The rule of law was an important cultural value in Classical Athens, and the Athenians designed their laws and legal procedures to implement this ideal. This chapter studies the courts of Athens, the judicial oath, and the courts for homicide.

Introduction to my book, Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees in the Age of Demosthenes, published by Brill, November 2017.

1998

In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Dr 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 S.Russia and Aegean cities including Ephesos, Samos and Thasos, is covered. Dr Arnaoutoglou divides legislation into three main areas: �� the household-marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, sexual offences and personal status • the marketplace-trade, finance, sale, coinage and leases • the state-constitution, legislative process, public duties, colonies, building activities, naval forces, penal regulations, religion, politics and interstate 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.

www.sfu.ca/nomoi, 2022

Manuals-introductory essays Methodology Bibliographies (see also the annual reports published over the years in AfP, JJP, RHDFE, SDHI) Berger, A. & A. A. Schiller (1945) "Bibliography of Anglo-American studies in Roman, Greek and Graeco-Egyptian law" The Jurist 3, 75-94. Fundamental principles Legal concepts Legal enactments (diagramma, nomos, prostagma, psephisma)

Classics Ireland, 2007

Journal of Ancient Civilizations 33/2, 2018

Law is a key factor of understanding ancient societies. Though studies on law have often, and for a long time, been undertaken by legal historians, mainly in Law Departments, they did not substantially affect historical studies. This is particularly due to specific terminologies and frameworks of ancient laws, and modern attempts to systematize ancient legal cultures in a mere juristic sphere, rather than to look at the respective historical context. The present survey offers new perspectives on, and approaches to, understanding the mutual interdependencies between law and the respective ancient society. Experts present theoretical and methodological considerations, recently discussed models and newly published research literature that might shape our understanding of ancient legal cultures in the next decades. In part 1, Sven Günther offers introductory remarks and examines some new trends in Roman Law Studies while Edward M. Harris comprehensively guides readers to recent developments in Greek Law Studies.

www.sfu.ca/nomoi, 2022

This chapter explores the importance of writing in the legal practices of the Greek poleis. After discussing writing materials and kinds of documents, illustrating the different functions documents on the same media could have and the problems in tracing ancient archives and reconstructing the role they played in the mechanisms of public administration, it concentrates on two case studies: written records concerning land transactions (in particular registers of sales) and the role of written documents in Athenian judicial procedures. It argues that the impact of written documents on the legal sphere and in establishing fair social relations within the polis was much more significant than is generally recognized.

Dike - Rivista Di Storia Del Diritto Greco Ed Ellenistico 28, 2025

The paper aims to reconstruct the procedures of the scrutiny of the laws (a significant part of the ‘evolving law reform’) in late fifth-century Athens, approaching them from a broader legal-cultural perspective that highlights the anagrapheis tōn nomōn’ vital role in revealing features of Athenian legal culture. I argue that the anagrapheis were neither mere transcribers of the laws nor officials vested with extensive legislative authority. Instead, their significance lay in the logistical challenges of finding, identifying and collecting laws during the preparatory step, before submission to the Ekklēsia for final approval. Anagrapheis’ works underscore not their individual relevance per se, but rather the broader complexity, flexibility, and importance of legal scrutiny itself for late fifth-century Athens. Thus, contextualising their role within the ‘evolving law reform’ illuminates multiple aspects of Athenian legal culture – ranging from ways of legal thinking, to social attitudes toward legislation, as well as the materiality of laws and the logistical complexities of legal inquiries, such as the establishment of archives, or the ways of publishing laws. After briefly presenting the sources (II), and outlining Nicomachus’ trial (III), I analyse the evidence to highlight key features of legal scrutiny, focusing on the anagrapheis’ vital role (IV), and conclude each subsection by considering what this reveals about Athenian legal culture (IV). A broader examination of the legal scrutiny procedures, law reform complexities, and their connections to legal culture is presented in the final sections (V–VI).