Boegehold, Alan L.

The lawcourts at Athens : sites, buildings, equipment, procedure, and testimonia / by Alan L. Boegehold with contributions by John McK. Camp II [and four others]. - Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1995. - xxviii, 256 pages, 10, 23 pages of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm. - The Athenian Agora v. 28.

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.

0876612281


Courts--History--Greece--Athens
Courthouses--History--Greece--Athens
Procedure (Law)--History--Greece--Athens


Athens (Greece)--Antiquities
Athens (Greece)--Buildings, structures, etc.

938.5