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Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora
Mabel L. Lang
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Description for Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora
Paperback. Series: Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book. Num Pages: 32 pages, 36ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDK; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 117 x 215 x 3. Weight in Grams: 62.
Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of evidence for legal activity found in the Agora makes clear. Every kind of case, from assault and battery to murder, and from small debts to contested fortunes, were heard in various buildings and spaces around the civic centre, and the speeches given in defence and prosecution remain some of the masterpieces of Greek literature. As well as describing the spaces where judgments were made (such as the Stoa Basileios, office of the King Archon), the author discusses the progress of some famous cases (known from the speeches ... Read more
Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of evidence for legal activity found in the Agora makes clear. Every kind of case, from assault and battery to murder, and from small debts to contested fortunes, were heard in various buildings and spaces around the civic centre, and the speeches given in defence and prosecution remain some of the masterpieces of Greek literature. As well as describing the spaces where judgments were made (such as the Stoa Basileios, office of the King Archon), the author discusses the progress of some famous cases (known from the speeches ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens United States
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Series
Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book
Condition
New
Weight
62g
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Princeton, United States
ISBN
9780876616376
SKU
V9780876616376
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About Mabel L. Lang
Mabel Lang (1917-2010) was the Katharine E. McBride Professor Emeritus and Paul Shorey Professor Emeritus of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. She authored or coauthored nine books published by the ASCSA.
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