CMS 231/ History 231

Litigation in Ancient Athens

Book Reviews	Web Sites on Athenian Law and History
Bibliographies	Lectures and Outlines from courses on Athenian Law & History
Primary Sources	On Line Articles
Texts of the Greek Orators:	Texts related to Athenian Law:

Book Reviews

• review of Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law, BMCR 94.06.06 by Matthew Christ
• review of Christ, The Litigious Athenian, BMCR 00.01.10
• review of Johnstone, Disputes and Democracy, BMCR 00.01.05
• reviews of Tulin, Dike Phonou: The Right of Prosecution and Attic Homicide Procedure.
• review of Boegehold and Scafuro (edd.), Athenian Identity & Civic Ideology, BMCR 94.9.8
• review of Carawan, Rhetoric and the Law of Draco, Classical Review 49 (1999) 456-8 [pdf file]
• review of Foxhall and Lewis,Greek Law in its Political Setting: Justifications not Justice, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 8 No. 6 (June 1998) pp. 276-278.
• review of Cheryl Anne Cox. Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens, American Historical Review 105.3; second review in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30.3, Winter 1999
• review of Chester G. Starr, The Birth of Athenian Democracy. The Assembly in theFifth Century B.C. BMCR 90.02.01
• review of Osborne and Hornblower (eds), Ritual, Finance, Politics. Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis

Web Sites on Athenian Law and History

• The Athenian Court and the American Court System, by Henry A. Rhodes
• Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
• Timetable of World Legal History
• Poetry and the Demos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession, by Casey Dué
• About Ancient History (.com)'s site on Greek Law
• PBS documentary, The Greeks
• Charlie Kyriacou, A Detailed Chronology of Greek History
• Thomas Martin, Overview of Archaic and Classical Athenian History (from the Perseus web site)
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Legal Texts
• The Perseus Project
• The Last Days of Socrates

Lectures and Outlines from courses on Athenian Law & History

• Richard Hooker, The Age of Pericles: The Athenian Empire
• Fredrick Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State
• Clifford Ando, Athenian History After the Persian Wars
• John Porter, The Rise of Athens and the Athenian Democracy: From Solon to Cleisthenes (with a brief glance at Sparta)
• Martha's Vineyard Regional Highschool, Greek Democracy
• Gerhard Rempel, How Democratic Was Athens?
• Rodger Dunkle, Athenian Political Life
• David M. Johnson, Athens to Empire and Radical Democracy
• Richard Ingersoll , Athens: The City and Politics
• David Noy, Women in the Greek World
• Jean Alverez, Notes on the Wasps of Aristophanes, probably put on in 422 B.C.
• Greta Ham, Lysis I and Greek Women
• Prof. Tom Sienkewicz, Athenian Family Life: Some Legal Evidence
• San Antonio College The Attic Orators Index
• University of St. Andrews, Antiphon the Sophist
• David Kolb, Antiphon
• David Roy Vance. Antiphon, the Sophist (c. 480-411 BC) on Justice
• Catherine Colegrove, Women in the Oikos: The Stranger Within

Biographies

• Columbia Encyclopaedia bio of Aeschines
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Aeschines
• Columbia Encyclopaedia bio of Andocides
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Andocides
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Antiphon
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Demosthenes
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Drako
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Dinarchus
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Hyperides
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Isaeus
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Isocrates
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Lycurgus
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Lysias
• Encyclopaedia Britannica bio of Solon

Bibliographies

• NOMOI: Bibliography on Ancient Greek Law
• Web bibliography on Ancient Law
• Pomerium's web bibliography on Classics Law
• University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies, Rhetoric and Philosophy in Ancient Greece A Selective Interdisciplinary Bibliography
• Greece: Internet Law Library

On line articles

• Pericles' Citizenship Law, Alfred French (University of Adelaide), The Ancient History Bulletin 8.3 (1994) 71-75
• ARISTOCRATS AND THE COMING OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY, Walter Eder, in Democracy 2500 -Questions and Challenges, ed. by Ian Morris and Kurt A. Raaflaub, p. 105-137
• Athenian Political Art from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.:Images of Political Personifications, Amy C. Smith
• GEOGRAPHY AND KINSHIP AS POLITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN ARCHAIC ATHENS , K.R. Walters
• Legal Status in the Greek World, Lefkowitz and Fant
• LYSIAS 29.12: JURORS FROM THE PIRAEUS, James Roy
• Pollution of Homicide in Ancient Greece, Koji Hirayama
• Meditations of Lysias 1 and Athenian Adultery, Ruth Scodel
•  After Irony: Aristophanes' Wealth and its Modern Interpreters, James McGlew
• A Note on Antipater's Demand of Hyperides and Demosthenes, Craig Cooper
• HISTORICAL PARADIGMS IN DEMOSTHENES' PUBLIC SPEECHES , R. D. Milns
• Supernatural Vengeance in Antiphon and Thucydides, W. E. Hutton
• Women, Children and Men, Marilyn A. Katz
• ATHENIAN POPULAR IDEOLOGY, Douglas H. Kelly
• The Horse and the Maiden" (Aeschines 1.182 etc.): An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens, Lowell Edmunds
• Agonistic metaphors and comparisons by the Attic Orators - some examples, Therese Aigner

   

Primary sources

• Images:
  • Inscription Subject: Athenian regulations specifying contributions of produce and income from [citizens?], colonists, cleruchs and freed slaves.
  • Inscription: Subject: Athenian manumission law
  • Translation: ATHENIAN LAW ON SILVER COINAGE, 375/4 B.C.
  • Pictures of a Klepsydra and some Ostraka, from Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Museum of the Ancient Agora (Stoa of Attalos) [scroll down for pictures]
  • Image: The Old Bouleuterion
  • Image: The New Bouleuterion
  • Image: Plan of 5th Century Athenian Law Courts
  • Georgetown Law Library: Ancient Law
    
    
• Texts of the Greek Orators:

Links to the forensic speeches of the Attic Orators are set forth below. If the text appears in Greek, and you prefer to read it in English, use the "version" menu beneath the title of the speech to change the text to English. Then press the "change now" button.

• The speeches of Aeschines:
  • Speech 1: Against Timarchus, [2nd version with an introduction]
  • Speech 2: On the Embassy,
  • Speech 3: Against Ctesiphon
• The speeches of Andocides
  • Speech 1: On the Mysteries, Speech 2: On His Return,
  • Speech 3: On the Peace with Sparta, Speech 4: Against Alcibiades
• The speeches of Antiphon
  • Speech 1: Prosecution Of The Stepmother For Poisoning,
  • Speech 2: The First Tetralogy (Anonymous Prosecution for Murder):
    • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
  • Speech 3: The Second Tetralogy (Prosecution for Accidental Homicide):
    • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
  • Speech 4: The Third Tetralogy: (Prosecution for Murder Of One Who Pleads Self-Defense)
    • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
  • Speech 5: On the Murder of Herodes, Speech 6: On the Choreutes
• The speeches of Dinarchus
  • Speech 1: Against Demosthenes, Speech 2: Against Aristogiton
  • Speech 3: Against Philocles
• The speeches of Hyperides
  • Speech 1: In Defence of Lycophron
  • Speech 1a: Second Speech in Defence of Lycophron
  • Speech 2: Against Philippides
  • Speech 3: Against Athenogenes
  • Speech 4: In Defence of Euxenippus
  • Speech 5: Against Demosthenes
• The speeches of Isaeus
  • Speech 1: On The Estate of Cleonymus
  • Speech 2: On the Estate of Menecles
  • Speech 3: On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
  • Speech 4: On the Estate of Nicostratus
  • Speech 5: On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
  • Speech 6: On the Estate of Philoctemon
  • Speech 7: On The Estate of Apollodorus
  • Speech 8: On The Estate of Ciron
  • Speech 9: On the Estate of Astyphilus
  • Speech 10: On The Estate Of Aristarchus
  • Speech 11: On the Estate of Hagnias
  • Speech 12: On Behalf of Euphiletus
• The speeches and letters of Isocrates
  • Speech 16: Concerning the Team of Horses
  • Speech 17: Trapeziticus
  • Speech 18: Against Callimachus
  • Speech 19: Aegineticus
  • Speech 20: Against Lochites
  • Speech 21: Against Euthynus
• The speeches of Lycurgus - Speech 1: Against Leocrates
• The speeches of Lysias
  

Lysias 1, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 2nd version	Lysias 10, Against Theomnestus 1	Lysias, 18: On The Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration	Lysias, 26: On the Scrutiny of Evandros
Lysias 3, Against Simon: Defense	Lysias 11, Against Theomnestus 2	Lysias, 19: On the Property of Aristophanes	Lysias, 27: Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys
Lysias 4, On A Wound By Premeditation	Lysias 12, Against Eratosthenes	Lysias, 20: For Polystratus	Lysias, 28: Against Ergocles
Lysias 5, For Callias	Lysias 13, Against Agoratus	Lysias, 21: Defence Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes	Lysias, 29: Against Philocrates
Lysias 6, Against Andocides	Lysias, 14: Against Alcibiades 1	Lysias, 22: Against The Corn-Dealers	Lysias, 30: Against Nicomachus
Lysias 7, Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump	Lysias, 15: Against Alcibiades 2	Lysias, 23: Against Pancleon	Lysias, 31: Against Philon
Lysias 8, Accusation of Calumny	Lysias, 16: In Defense of Mantitheus	Lysias, 24: On The Refusal Of A Pension second translation with introduction	Lysias, 32: Against Diogeiton
Lysias 9, For The Soldier	Lysias, 17: On The Property Of Eraton	Lysias, 25: Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy	Lysias, 34: On defense of the Ancestral Constitution

• The forensic speeches of Demosthenes.

Speech 20, Against Leptines	Speech 31, Against Onetor 2	Speech 41, Against Spudias	Speech 52, Apollodorus Against Callipus
Speech 21, Against Meidias	Speech 32, Against Zenothemis	Speech 42, Against Phaenippus	Speech 53, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
Speech 22, Against Androtion	Speech 33, Against Apaturius	Speech 43, Against Macartatus	Speech 54, Against Conon
Speech 23, Against Aristocrates	Speech 34, Against Phormio	Speech 44, Against Leochares	Speech 55, Against Callicles
Speech 24, Against Timocrates	Speech 35, Against Lacritus	Speech 45, Apollodorus Against Stephanus 1	Speech 56, Against Dionysodorus
Speech 25, Against Aristogeiton 1	Speech 36, For Phormio	Speech 46, Apollodorus Against Stephanus 1	Speech 57, Against Eubulides
Speech 26, Against Aristogeiton 2	Speech 37, Against Pantaenetus	Speech 47, Against Evergus And Mnesibulus	Speech 58, Against Theocrines
Speech 27, Against Aphobus 1	Speech 38, Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes	Speech 48, Against Olympiodorus	Speech 59, Apollodorus Against Neaera
Speech 28, Against Aphobus 2	Speech 39, Against Boeotus 1	Speech 49, Apollodorus Against Timotheus
Speech 29, Against Aphobus 3	Speech 40, Against Boeotus 2	Speech 50, Apollodorus Against Polycles
Speech 30, Against Onetor 1		Speech 51, On The Trierarchic Crown

• Texts related to Athenian Law:
  • Aristotle,
    • The Athenian Constitution
    • The Politics
  • Aeschylus
    • Agamemnon
    • Libation Bearers
    • Eumenides
  • Aristophanes:
    • Thesmophoriazusae
    • Wasps
    • The Clouds
  • Opinions on Demosthenes
  • Dionysios of Halikarnassos on Lysias
  • Comments on the Style and Career of Isokrates
  • Plutarch, Life of Solon: (with reconstruction of display of Solon's law code)
  • On the trial and death of Socrates
    • Plato
      • see The Last Days of Socrates web site for Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo.
    • Xenophon, Works on Socrates
      • Apology
      • Economics
      • Symposium