Legal Pluralism in Archaic Greece
The theory of legal pluralism argues that law’s function in modern society must be understood as a negotiation between different sets of legal orders operating simultaneously. This paper argues that archaic Greece, too, was a legally plural society and explores two negotiations as evidence: 1)the relationship between Drakon’s murder law and the procedure of blood-money negotiation; 2)the Gortyn Law Code and oath-trials.
Access, Fairness, and Transaction Costs: Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Athens: 375/4 BC)
Access, Fairness, and Transaction Costs: Nikophon’s law on silver coinage (Athens: 375/4 BC) Ober, Josiah Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, July 2009 Abstract…
Athens' Democratic Witnesses
Athens’ Democratic Witnesses By
The trust fund of Phaenia Aromation (IG V.1 1208) and imperial Gytheion
In the small town of Gytheion in southern Laconia two marble blocks were found, containing the regulations for a trust fund from the year 42 AD (IG V,1 1208; SEG 13,258). The text will be presented with new emendations and an English translation.
Grain Distribution in Late Republican Rome
In the scholarly debate, on the basis of judgements which we find in ancient sources, the grain laws are often considered to be, mainly, a political tool used to win approval from theRoman plebs.