Book of Donmon Teith

This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the le

Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, this analysis of the legal regulation of violence in Athenian society challenges traditional acco

How successful were the Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as law both in the polis and internationally? This collection of

This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.

Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’