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The Law in Classical Athens
by
Douglas M MacDowell
Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1978. 173 pgs. Aspects of Greek and Roman life. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (light staining present to the bottom edge of the boards at the heel of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
A Social history of Ancient Greece and Rome which features a detailed study of the ways in which the law was applied in classical Athens.
What's striking about the Athenian system is that there is no civil/criminal division. This means that a jury in a particular case could award damages, fines, punishments, whatever it thought, unless a specific statute controlled the remedy. Officials of the state could bring cases in some instances, but for the most part Athenian judicial process was initiated by private persons. The main distinction was the type of action available: dike demosia, a case that anyone might file, and dike idia, a case that only a victim or other directly aggrieved person might file (57-58).
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