Early Greek Law

Subject Index

SUBJECT INDEX Achilles. See Homer Adoption, 78 Aeschylus, trial of Orestes, 41-42 Aethiopis, 14n43, 44n71 Agamemnon. See Homer agraphos nomos, 55nl3. See also Unwritten law aisymnetes, 59-60 Alphabet, Greek, 132,134-35 Andromadas, 60, 64 Anthropology and law. See Law, anthropological views of; Preliterate societies Antilochus. See Homer apagoge, 22n9, 75, 113, 115,116 Apollo. See Hymn to Hermes Appeal, in law from Chios, 89—91. See also ephesis Argos, legal inscription from, 91 Assault, laws against, 65 Athena, role in Odyssey, 105 axones, 55nl4, 127nl8 basileus, 43—44. See also Kings Bentham, Jeremy, on substantive and procedural law, 12 Blood-money, 11, 28, 31-33 Bribery, 90 Catalogue of Women, dispute between Sisyphus and Aithon, 35—36, 56nl6 Change in the laws, laws prohibiting, 76-77 Chariot race in Iliad 23. See Homer Charondas: colonial legislator, 129— 30; laws of, 64-66, 67n70, 70-71, 74-75, 109; Near-Eastern influence on, 128;singing of laws of, 54nlO Chios: legal inscription from, 89—91; aristocratic government in, 91, 124 Citizenship: in Draco's laws, 80, 140; in Solon's laws, 71 Cleonae, homicide law from, 89n23 Colonization, not the reason for written law, 129-30 Combat, a method of proof, 29 n34 Commercial laws, 65-66, 70-71 Compromise settlement, 38, 41, 42, 102 Compulsory legal procedure, 111-15, 116 Conditional sentence, form of earliest laws, 36n51, 53, 56 Constitutional law, 55, 71 Contracts, laws concerning, 65—66, 74-75 Crete, laws of, 60, 68; influenced by Near-Eastern laws, 126—28; enacted as single laws, 62, 97,127, 138-39. Seealso Dreros; Gortyn; Minos Crimes, treated as torts, 63 Cumae, homicide law from, 64, 75, 79, 117-18 Cyclopes. See Homer Cylonian conspiracy, 19n3, 59n25, 114, 137 Decrees: distinguished from laws and maxims, 54—55; on inscriptions, 81nl, 95n52 Defendant. See Plaintiff Deioces, 20-24, 58-59, 78nl23, 86, 107, 134 Democracy: absent at Chios, 91; and literacy, 132n35; the reason for written law, 121-26 Index 158 Demonax, 59, 60 dikaion, 95 dike: in Hesiod, 1 nl, 46-49,99, 109n23; meaning of, 100; originally a boundary mark, 23nl3; term for "private suit," 69. See also Straight dike exoules, 74, 117 Diocles of Syracuse, 65n66, 66 Draco: first Athenian lawgiver, 59,137; homicide law of, 64, 78-79, 8689 , 109,112-15, 139-40; other laws of, 55-56, 76; procedure in laws of, 75, 78-79, 88-89, 11215 ; severity of, 66—67. See also axones Dreros: legal inscription from, 81-86, 128n22, 130n28; minor fragments, 86nl8; authority of polis at, 132, 133-34 Due process, 116-17 Dworkin, Ronald, 2n5, 5 Economic laws, 70—71 eisangelia, 76, 116 Enforcement of legal settlements, 6-7, 68-69, 74, 92, 96-97, 114, 11617 England, early law of, 17 epbesis, 73, 90-91 episkepsis, 74, 116 Eretria, legal inscription from, 91-93 False witness, 74 Family law, 63, 67-69, 139-40 Fees for judgment, 30n35, 85nl5 Fines: payment of, 85, 92; nonpayment of, 92, 93, 96-97 Formalism: absent from early laws, 45-46; greater degree of, in written laws, 117-18 Gods: ascription oflaws to, 60, 133 n40; reference to, at beginning of laws, 128n22, 133nn39-40; role of, in legal process, 27n28, 30 Gortyn: Great Code, 13, 69n79, 74, 96, 110n27, 110n29, 118n50; homicide law at, 89n23; legal inscriptions from, 67, 83n8, 93-94, 95-96, 138n52, 139 graphs, 69, 73-74, 113n35, 116 Greek law: special nature of, 132-34, 145-46; study of, 16-17 gynaikonomoi, 68n78 Hammurabi, laws of, 13n40, 128n23 Hart, H. L. A., 2, 5nl4, Iln34 Hebrews, law codes of, 133 n37 Heiress, law concerning, 67, 68 Hermes. See Hymn to Hermes Herodotus. See Deioces Hesiod: attitude toward kings,24-26, 46, 85; attitude toward legal process , 1, 46-50, 108-9, 122, 146; dispute with Perses, 34-35, 108. See also Catalogue of Women toor, 31n37 Homer: Agamemnon's dispute with Achilles, 38-39, 102-4; Antilochus 's dispute with Menelaus, 28n31, 36-38, 102;Antilochus's speeches to Achilles, 38n56, 1012 ; chariot race in Iliad 23, 37n53, 101-2; Cyclopes, 106,134n43; duel between Paris and Menelaus, 29n34; Idomeneus's dispute with Ajax, 31n37, 44n71; Minos in Hades, 33; Odysseus's dispute with Ajax, 33-34; Odysseus's dispute with the suitors, 39, 104-5; shield of Achilles, 26-33,46, 107 Homicide, treatment of: in Aethiopis, 14n43; in Draco's law, 78-79, 86-89, 109,112-15; in Homer, 11, 14-15, 32...