Use and abuse of law in the Athenian courts / / edited by Chris Carey, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Brenda Griffith-Williams.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne supplements : history and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 419
• TeilnehmendeR: Carey, Christopher,; Giannadaki, Ifigeneia,; Griffith-Williams, Brenda,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 419.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 385 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Abbreviations --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; Conceptualising the System --; Abuse Is in the Eye of the Beholder /; The Elasticity of Athenian Law /; The Athenian View of an Athenian Trial /; Bridging the Divide between Public and Private: dikē exoulēs and Other Hybrids /; Procedural Manoeuvres --; Isaios 6: a Case of Procedural Abuse (and Scholarly Misunderstandings) /; Anakrisis and the Framing of Strategies of Argumentation in Athenian Public Trials /; The Postponement of the Trial by Jury in Athens: the Timing of the graphē paranomōn /; Use and Abuse of Legal Procedures to Impede the Legal Process /; The Rhetoric of Law --; Clauses out of Context: Partial Citation of Statutes in Attic Forensic Oratory /; Twisting the Law in Ancient Athens /; (Re)constructing the Athenian Legal System /; Liturgies and the Rhetoric of Law in Fourth-Century Athens: a Case Study on an antidosis ([Dem.] 42) /; Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence: the Topography of Law in Demosthenes 23 Against Aristokrates /; ‘Theft’ as a Metaphor for the Abuse of Legal Process at Athens /; Specific Areas of Law --; Laws against Laws: the Athenian Ideology of Legislation /; Abuse of the eisangelia in the Latter Half of the Fourth Century BC /; Athenian Homicide Law and the Model Penal Code /; Abuse of Inheritance Law in Isaios? /; Glossary of Legal Terms.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004377891
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Chris Carey, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Brenda Griffith-Williams.

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 legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athenian constitution as well as the use of law(s) in the courts, the nature of law itself, and the elusiveness of a definition of ‘abuse’. An introduction sketches the major developments in the field over the last century.