Making and changing laws in ancient Athens

Mirko Canevaro

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Making and changing laws in ancient Athens

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This chapter explores the development of ideas about legislation and legislative procedures in ancient Athens. It isolates an ideology of legislation that mistrusted legal change, and that came into conflict with democratic ideas and practices. It then discusses the creation of nomothesia procedures at the end of the fifth century BCE that reconciled the need for legal change with that for consistent and stable laws, and follows the workings of these procedures throughout the fourth century BCE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Law
Editors	Mirko Canevaro, Edward Harris
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Print)	9780199599257
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199599257.013.4
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015

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legal change
nomothesia
graphe paranomon
oligarchic revolutions
Athenian democracy
Solon

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Mirko Canevaro
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology - Personal Chair of Greek History
- Classics
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