This study identifies the objects, buildings and sites that the Athenians used in connection with their lawcourts during the 5th to 3rd centuries BC. It begins with a study of the names of courts and an attempt to link them with buildings.
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This study identifies the objects, buildings and sites that the Athenians used in connection with their lawcourts during the 5th to 3rd centuries BC. It begins with a study of the names of courts and an attempt to link them with buildings.
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Publisher:
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published:
1995
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15077418403
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Fine with no dust jacket. 0876612281. 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.; The Athenian Agora. Volume XXVIII.; Vol. 28; 284 pages.
