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This module surveys Greek law in its historical contexts, from the early Archaic period to the Hellenistic. The module will focus on Classical Athens and the development of a body of law from its distinctively democratic system; individual topics will be approached primarily through the lens of selected Attic court speeches. The last part of the module broadens out into Greek jurisprudence: the philosophers who influentially attempted to relate positive laws and the idea of law to theories of justice, human nature, and cosmology.
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