Authors: Michael Gagarin
ISBN-13: 9780520066021, ISBN-10: 0520066022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: April 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Michael Gagarin is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Aeschylean Drama (1976) and Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law (1981).
Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities.