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The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and

Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, this analysis of the legal regulation of violence in Athenian society challenges traditional acco

Athenians performed democracy daily in their law courts. Without lawyers or judges, private citizens, acting as accusers and defendants, argued their own cases

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Syn�goroi are widely known in Athenian law to have served as supporting speakers and aids to the main prosecutors within a courtroom. Lene Rubinstein argues t