The lawcourts at Athens : sites, buildings, equipment, procedure, and testimonia / by Alan L. Boegehold with contributions by John McK. Camp II [and four others].

By:

Boegehold, Alan L. (Alan Lindley) [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Athenian Agora ; v. 28.Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995.Description: xxviii, 256 pages, 10, 23 pages of plates : illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0876612281

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

938.5

Summary: "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."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	938.5 BOE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000004554

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."-- Publisher's description.