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Author:

Carawan, Edwin, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97107559

Title:

Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens / Edwin Carawan.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Constitutional history--Athens--Athens--To 146 B.C.
Judicial process--Athens--Athens--History--To 1500.
Law, Greek--Political aspects--Athens.--Athens.
Judicial process (Greek law)
Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
Constitutional history.
Judicial process.
Politics and government.
Greece--Athens.
To 1500
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

The People and the Law : Demos and Nomos -- Making Law and Mending the Constitution -- Judges and Lawmakers -- "Unlawful Action" (Paranoma) and the Case of the Arginousai Generals -- Privileged Characters: Aristocrates' Shield for Charidemos -- Outrage : The Case against Androtion -- Breaking the Bargain : The Case against Leptines' Law -- The Aftermath of Chaironeia -- The Crown Case Comes to Trial -- Law's Measure

Summary:

"Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped Athenian lawmaking. He also compares the judiciary of ancient Athens to that of the modern United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cultural histories of the ancient world

ISBN:

1421439492
9781421439495

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142016393

LCCN:

2020011674

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)