NOMOI. Bibliography on ancient Greek law. Addenda 2022B

From Bedroom to Courtroom argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality. Given the genre’s emphasis on love and chastity, the specter of adultery looms over most of the scenarios that develop into elaborate trials. Such scenes shed light on the Greek reception of the criminalization of adultery promulgated by the moral legislation during the reign of Augustus. This book focuses on three major novels whose composition coincided with the extension of Roman citizenship when access to Roman courts was granted to increasing numbers of inhabitants of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Chariton’s Callirhoe is interpreted as an artifact of the generation after the implementation of the Augustan moral legislation, particularly its criminalization of adultery. Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon was created in a legally pluralistic milieu where shrewd sophists learned to navigate and exploit the interstices between the overlapping jurisdictions of imperial and local law. Finally, Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, widely regarded as the masterpiece of the genre, adapts the type-scene of the trial to present a series of case studies of different types of government, culminating in the utopian kingdom of Meroe. Through the novels’ melodramatic trial scenes, we can begin to see how the opening of Roman courtroom to Greek-speaking citizens of the Roman Empire stimulated dreams of a world in which universal justice under Rome was wed to Hellenism.

EDIT: Irealize that there hasn't been enough time for people to participate in the session before it expired. I would still appreciate any feedback that came to me via internal messaging or email. ----------- Here I present a translation of the so-called “general part” of my doctoral thesis “Altgriechische Gesetze” (2010), which is linked to on this same profile page, as well as part 3, titled “Ausblick”. This parts contain the bulk of the argument, without the detailed commentary on ten selected inscriptions from the Archaic era that bolsters it (part 2 of the original). I plan on adding that commentary later, either in a separate file or as part of a revised and enlarged version of the present one. The translation contains references to the original dissertation, which is referred to as “AP” followed by the number of the chapter in question (e.g. “2.3.1.”). There are also some significant additions; for instance, I have written a new introduction, and the actual translation begins only on p. 4. The most important insertion, however, is the chapter “The Lawgivers as Arbitrators” (p. 62-72), where I deal with a specific set of differences between the process of legislation in Archaic Greece and the ones we are familiar with, differences that seem to call into question my equation of archaic statutes with contracts or agreements. Any feedback is more than welcome! Content: P.1: Introduction P.14: Covenants in Ancient Greece P. 62: The Lawgivers as Arbitrators P. 73: Statutes in Classical Greece P. 83: Bibliography

Ancilla Iuris, 2015

Justice without law? Scenarios of jurisdiction in Homer, Hesiod and Aeschylus 1 On these areas of law see Angelos Chaniotis, Conflicting Authorities: Asylia between Secular and Divine Law in the Classical and Hellenistic Poleis, Kernos 9 (1996), 65-86; Gabriel Hermann, Ritualized Friendship and the Greek City, Cambridge et al. (1987); Allen H. Sommerstein/Judith Fletcher (eds.), Horkos. The Oath in Greek Society, Exeter (2007).-Regarding the competency of the Homeric Zeus for oaths and hospitality, see also Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Justice of Zeus, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London (1971), 5. translated by Alison Lewis 2 Hesiod, Theogony 901f. In regard to the following, it is important to know that this situation does not yet apply in the Homeric epics, where Zeus is not supported by any principle of law. 3 On this subject,

The Classical Review, 2010