Greek 350
Tutorial: Literature of the Lawcourts

"A Leg Up"
Supplemental Materials
and
Useful Links

Law

  • The Stoa Consortium
    • Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
    • Demos special collection: “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context,” ( for pdf files go to Demos —scroll down the left column)
      • An Introduction to the Athenian Democracy, Christopher Blackwell (Furman)
        [pdf version]
      • An Introduction to the Athenian Legal System, V. Bers. (Yale) and Adrianne Lanni (Harvard)
        [pdf version]
      • Transforming a Dispute into a Case,· Steven Johnstone (U. Arizona)
        [pdf version]
      • Law and Economy · Edward Harris (Brooklyn College)
      • Athenian Homicide Law: Case Studies, M. Gagarin (U. Texas at Austin)
      • Sycophancy and Attitudes toward Litigation · Matthew Christ (U. Indiana)
      • Women and Family in Athenian Law · Konstantinos Kapparis (U. Florida) (pdf only)
      • Punishment in Ancient Athens · Danielle Allen (U. Chicago)
        [pdf version]
      • Gadfly on Trial: Socrates as Citizen and Social Critic, Josiah Ober (Princeton)
        [pdf version]
      • Orator Biographies · David D. Phillips (UCLA) (with K. Kapparis)
      • Glossary of legal terms, S.C. Todd & Michael de Brauw (U. Texas at Austin)

  • Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, ca. 350 BCE (Parts I, II, and III), from "The Internet Classics Archives" (See sections 63–69 in III on juries.)

  • Athenian Agora Publications: ( to locate and download pdf files,use browser search for Lang, or scroll down and browse)

    • M. Lang, rev. J. Camp, The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (pdf)
    • M. Lang, Life, Death, and Litigation in the Athenian Agora (pdf)
    • M. Lang, Socrates in the Agora (viewable on-line only)

  • Ancient Greek Laws in the World Wide Web, Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou, Imeros 3 (2003).

  • Nomoi (enormous bibliography by categories)


Language, style, rhetorical terms

  • 1,000 Greek words (28 pages, pdf file; important words in Attic Greek)
  • Principal Parts drills (Use the"Alphabetic and Verb-Type Sets), D. Mastronarde, UC Berkeley
  • S.C. Woodhouse, English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language (searchable), University of Chicago
  • Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (U. of Ky, Classics).
  • Index of Rhetorical Terms
  • Also see Smyth,"Figures," §3004-48
  • Use Perseus to create vocabulary lists for individual authors and works (Greek or Latin): These will create vocabulary lists with short definitions (useful, but will not replace your lexicon)
  • Transition to Attic Greek, a brief guide to the differences in syntax and morphology (forms) between Attic and Homeric/Ionic Greek.(downloadable pdf files)

Miscellenea

  • The Ancient City of Athens
  • Greek and Roman Antiquity on the Web (my own small collection). Scroll down to"E-tools of the Trade"