Author: BOEGEHOLD, ALAN L. (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN MCK. CAMP II, MARGARET CROSBY, MABEL LANG, DAVID R. JORDAN AND RHYS F. TOWNSEND
Title: The Athenian Agora: The Lawcourts at Athens Sites, Buildings, Equipment, Procedure, and Testimonia. Volume Xxviii
Description: American School of Classical Studies At Athens, 1995. Hardcover. ISBN: 0876612281. A comprehensive, three-part study of the sites and procedures of Athenian lawcourts in the 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries B. C. Part I discusses various courts, their names and possible sites, and reconstructs their history and daily workings, synthesizing literary, documentary, and physical evidence. Part II discusses the buildings which could have served as courts and the objects found in them. Such court paraphernalia included ballots, receptacles for documents, water clocks (used to time speeches) , allotments machines and their accessories (for assigning jurors to the courts) , seating tokens, and a curse tablet. Part III collects 355 testimonia on Athenian lawcourts, with Greek text, translation, and commentary. ; The Athenian Agora. Volume XXVIII. ; Vol. 28; 284 pages. Fine with no dust jacket .

Keywords: 0876612281 Archeology & Archaeology Athens & Athenians Excavation Reports Art And Architecture Legal And Law Legal History


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