Rhetoric and the Law of Draco - Edwin Carawan

Rhetoric and the Law of Draco

By: Edwin Carawan

Hardcover | 1 February 1998

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Trials for murder and manslaughter in ancient Athens are preserved in a singularly full and revealing record. The earliest surviving speeches were written for such proceedings, and the laws governing such trials - laws that tradition ascribes to Draco himself - also survive in large part. These documents bear witness to the birth of the jury trial and of democratic rhetoric. This book, the first study of its kind, offers a systematic interpretation of Draco's law and the legal reasoning that grew out of it. The author outlines the historical development (7th to 4th centuries BCE), and then analyses the surviving speeches to unravel the underlying issues and practical consequences.
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`The book is a welcome addition to a considerable volume of bibliography on homicide law in ancient Athens ... this book will generate further debates on one of the most ancient statutes in history.' I. Arnaoutoglou, Journal of Hellenic Studies `The bibliography is exhaustive and up-to-date, and includes titles from a wide range of subjects ... What is worth mentioning is the measured and successful comparative approach to modern, continental and Anglo-American legal bibliography.' I. Arnaoutoglou, Journal of Hellenic Studies `Edwin Carawan, one of the leading contributors to the debate offers an extensive, thought-provoking study of the law, its development, and application in the homicide speeches of Antiphon and Lysias. C.'s book will undoubtedly provoke intense scholarly debate. I welcome this excellent study as an extremely important contribution to the field of Athenian homicide law.' M.J. Edwards, The Classical Review `A sophisticated book written ... for scholars.' Peter Krentz, Religious Studies Review

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