Writing Authority : : Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece /

Writing Authority : : Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece / / Jason Hawke.

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In Writing Authority, Hawke argues that the rapidly changing political and economic landscape of early Greece prompted elites to begin committing laws to written form. The emergence of the polis and its institutions, the demographic growth of Greece, the development of market forces, and the commodi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Hawke, Jason,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1-LAW, JUSTICE, AND LEGISLATION IN EARLY GREECE
  • 2-APPROACHES TO EARLY GREEK LEGAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE
  • 3-LEGAL CULTURE IN GREECE BEFORE WRITTEN LAW
  • 4-JUDICIAL EQUALITY, LITERACY, AND WRITTEN LAW
  • 5-ELITES AND THE WORLD OF THE EMERGING POLIS
  • 6-ARISTOCRATIC ANXIETIES AND THE WRITING OF LAWS
  • 7 -CONCLUSION: Writing and Authority
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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