Athenian Amnesty and Reconstructing the Law

This volume explores the amnesty which ended the civil war at Athens in 403 BC. It presents a new interpretation of the Athenian Amnesty in its original setting, and in view of the subsequent reconstruction of laws and democratic institutions in Athens, while also drawing on perspectives from parallels in modern history.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations and Conventions


• 1: Introduction: Amnesty and Reconstruction


• 2: A Brief History of the Problem


• 3: Comparanda: Treaties and Decrees


• 4: The Evolving Agreement


• 5: Paragraphe and Civil Suits: Isokrates Against Kallimachos


• 6: The Homicide Rule and the Case against Agoratos


• 7: The Special Accountings and the Speech Against Eratosthenes


• 8: Andokides Defense On the Mysteries and the Amnesty Legislation


• 9: The Case against Socrates


• 10: The Case against Nikomachos and Rewriting the Laws


• 11: The Legacy of the Reconciliation


• 12: Conclusions and Defining Issues


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Edwin Carawan is Professor of Classics at Missouri State University. His publications include Rhetoric and the Law of Draco (OUP; 1998) and The Attic Orators (OUP; 2007) in the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies series.

Summary

This volume explores the amnesty which ended the civil war at Athens in 403 BC. It presents a new interpretation of the Athenian Amnesty in its original setting, and in view of the subsequent reconstruction of laws and democratic institutions in Athens, while also drawing on perspectives from parallels in modern history.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Carawan, Edwin (Professor of Classics Carawan, Carawan Edwin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199672769
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967276-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LAW / Legal History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Legal History, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Battles & campaigns, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Battles and campaigns