NOMOI. Bibliography on ancient Greek law(s)

Additions January - June 2025

 

 

Sources

 

 

Orators

Siron, N. (2024) “Rhétorique et littérature dans les discours judiciaires de l’Athènes classique” Droit et Littérature 8, 125-38.

 

Aeschines

Barbato, M. (2025) “Gossip, morals and poetry: Legal relevance in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 80-100, Edinburgh.

Giombini, St. (2024) «De la diabolē a la vita ante acta: el ataque personal en la retórica judicial griega y romana,» in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 87-102, Santa Rosa.

 

Andocides

van Hove, R. (2025) “Trial and error: Impiety and legal relevance in Andocides’ On the Mysteries” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 184-208, Edinburgh.

Moro, A. (2023) «La date et le contexte historique du Sur la paix d’Andocide. Pour une reconstitution des négotiations de 392» Ktèma 48, 173-90.

Romikiewicz, J. (2023) «Dekret Demofantosa – ateńskie prawo przeciw tyranii» Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 4236, 353-69.

 

Antiphon

Ramon Palerm, V. M. & S. Vergara Recreo (2024) «(Ir)religiosidad e innovacione léxico-semánticas en Antifonte: La Tetralogía segunda» Talia dixit 19, 209-23.

 

Deinarchus

 

Demosthenes/Apollodorus

Cawkwell, G. L. (1961) “A note on Ps. Demosthenes 17.20” Phoenix 15, 74-78.

Dmitriev, Sv. (2016) “Killing in Style: Demosthenes, Demades, and Phocion in Later Rhetorical Tradition” Mnemosyne 69, 931-54.

Esu, A. (2025) “Law, office and honour: Legal relevance and forensic arguments in Demosthenes’ Against Androtion” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 54-79, Edinburgh.

Falco, G. (2025) “Against Timotheus: Keeping to the point in a suit for damage” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 232-51, Edinburgh.

Gorman, V. B. & R. J. Gorman (2024) “A morphosyntactic authorship attribution study of the speeches of Demosthenes and Apollodorus” JHS 144, 65-92.

de Graaff, Fl. (2024) “El enojo y el miedo de las mujeres como evidencia de una jurisprudencia menor: el otro juicio contra Neera” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 27-41, Santa Rosa.

Harris, E. M. (2025) “The legal charge in Demosthenes’ Against Meidias” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 149-70, Edinburgh.

Rocchi, L. (2025) “Did Ariston keep to the point? Dikē aikeias and graphē hybreōs in Demosthenes’ Against Conon” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 171-83, Edinburgh.

Westwood, G. (2025) “The rhetoric of the graphē paranomōn in the trial on the Crown” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 27-53, Edinburgh.

 

Hypereides

Edwards, M. (2015) “Hyperides in the Archimedes Palimpsest” BICS Supplement 129, 81-86.

Lane Fox, R. J. (2025) "Hyperides against Diondas: Correcting the Date" ZPE 233,15-23.

Ucciadello, G. (2009) “Hyperides in the Archimedes palimpsest: paleography and textual transmission” BICS 52, 229-52.

 

Isaeus

Griffith-Williams, B. (2025) “Character evidence in Isaeus’ speeches from inheritance disputes” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 209-31, Edinburgh.

 

Isocrates

 

Lycurgus

Filonik, J. (2025) “How does Lycurgus keep to his point? Legal and rhetorical relevance in Against Leocrates” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 101-19, Edinburgh.

Vergara Recreo, S. (2024) “Betraying the polis and the gods. (Ir)Religious persuasion in Lycurgus, Against LeocratesAthenaeum 112, 5-27.

 

Lysias

Marren, M. (2020) «’Against Simon’ and ‘On a wound by premeditation’: Lysias’ court speeches writing carreer as the legal background of the Phaedrus» Journal of Graeco-Roman Studies 59/3, 39-56.

 

 

Epic

 

Homer

 

Hesiod

Colombani, M. C. (2024) “La dama ultrajada. Justicia y orden social en Hesiodo” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 20-26, Santa Rosa.

 

 

Tragedy

Fiamingo, L. (2025) “I riferimenti alla ‘vendetta’ nei casi di anomia e paranomia: analissi lessicale e prospettive giuridiche nella tragedia greca” in: Aresu, M., Giudice, A. & R. Porqueddu (eds) Dall’ anomia alla norma. Strategie di codifica dall’antichità ai giorni odierni, 31-54, Cagliari.

 

Aeschylus

Papageorgiou, K. A. (2024) „The justice of the Oresteia. From retributive passion to public moderation“ European Journal of History and Culture 1, https://eplopublications.eu/publication/digital-edition/justice-oresteia-retributive-passion-public-moderation

Petre, Z. (1986) „Le décret de Suppliantes d’Eschyle“ Studi Clasice 24, 25-32. (= Mihut, Fl. (ed) Zoe Petre. De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique, I, 537-46, Cluj-Napoca 2024)

Petre, Z. (1980) „Astoxenoi. À propos du statut des femmes dans la cité d’Eschyle“ Revue Roumaine d’Histoire 19, 173-81. (= Mihut, Fl. (ed) Zoe Petre. De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique, I, 507-18, Cluj-Napoca 2024)

 

Euripides

Caruso, Val. (2025) «Power, wealth and privilege in Euripides’ representation of stasis» Cahiers des études anciennes 62 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 11 avril 2025, consulté le 18 avril 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesanciennes/6261

 

Sophocles

Antelo, V. N. (2024) «La justicia en Critón y Antigona, y la elección entre la vida y la muerte» in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 1-8, Santa Rosa.

Sabattini, L. A. (2024) «¿‘Asesinatos justos con la mano’ o ‘asesinatos con mano justiciera’? Una reflexión filologico-jurídica sobre Electra de Sófocles, v. 37» in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 182-98, Santa Rosa.

 

 

Comedy

Buis, E. J. (2024) «El nómos como objeto: la circulaćion de bienes jurídicos y la tecnología material de la democracia en la comedia antigua» in: Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) Democracia, ley e instituciones (antiguas e modernas), 13-34, Madrid.

 

Aristophanes

 

Menander

 

 

Philosophy

 

Aristotle – see also International Aristotle Bibliography https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/browse/international-aristotle-bibliography

Bentley, R. (1999) “Loving freedom: Aristotle on slavery and the Good Life” Political Studies 47, 100-13.

Bloch, H. (1940) “Herakleides Lembos and his Epitome of Aristotle’s PoliteiaiTAPhA 71, 27-39.

Cairns, D. L. (2020) “Hybris and injustice in Aristotle” in: Veillard, C., Renaut, O. & D. El Murr (eds) Les philosophes face au vice, de Socrate à Augustin, 147-74, Leiden.

Cambiano, G. (1987) “Aristotle and the anonymous opponents of slavery” Slavery and Abolition 8, 22-41.

Canevaro, M. (2025) “Le legge nella Politica (e oltre)” in: Canevaro, M. &C. Zizza (eds) Aristotele la Politica. Guida, 175-212, Roma.

Faraguna, M. (2025) “Aristotele, la polis, il cittadino: Prospettive storiche e filosofiche” in: Canevaro, M. &C. Zizza (eds) Aristotele la Politica. Guida, 215-46, Roma.

von Fritz, K. (1940) “Atthidographers and exegetae” TAPhA 71, 91-126.

Garver, E. (1994) “Aristotle’s natural slaves: Incomplete praxeis and incomplete human beings” Journal of the History of Philosophy 32, 173-95.

Lisi, F. L. (2019) “Justice in the ninth book of Plato’s Laws and in the fifth book of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics” in: Farrington, S. T. (ed) Enthousiasmos: essays in ancient philosophy, history and literature. Festschrift für Eckart Schütrumpf on his 80th birthday, 51-65, Baden-Baden.

Magoja, E. E. (2024) “Decisión judicial y el problema del criterio para corregir la ley en la teoría de la equidad de Aristóteles” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 124-34, Santa Rosa.

Narbonne, J.-M. (2022) “Les meilleures raisons selon Aristote pour vivre en démocratie” Aristotelica 2, 31-50. https://doi.org/10.17454/ARIST02.02

Ramirez Vidal, G. (2024) “La epieikeia en la Retórica de Aristóteles” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 164-81, Santa Rosa.

Ross, D. L. (2008) “Aristotle’s ambivalence on slavery” Hermathena 184, 53-67.

Schütrumpf, E. (1993) “Aristotle’s theory of slavery: A Platonic dilemma” Ancient Philosophy 13, 111-23.

Waggoner, A. (2025) “Aristotle and the binds of natural slavery” Polis 42, 243-78.

Wikramanayake, G. H. (1961) “A note on the pisteis in Aristotle’s RhetoricAJPh 82, 193-6.

 

Plato - see also International Plato Society www.platosociety.org

Antelo, V. N. (2024) «La justicia en Critón y Antigona, y la elección entre la vida y la muerte» in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 1-8, Santa Rosa.

Dimauro, E. (2024) “Socrate e l’obbedienza alle leggi nella prospettiva platonica” MH 81, 220-38.

Fernandez, A. M. (2024) “Un aproximación e la teoría de la justicia en La República de Platón: la discusión entre Sócrates y Trasímaco (Rep. I) y sus proyecciones/ retrospecciones en el ámbito inter-póleis” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 42-58, Santa Rosa.

Grethlein, J. (2025) “The reconfiguration of law and narrative in Plato’s Apology” in: Kirstein, R. & S. Schmidt-Hofner (eds) Recht als Erzählung. Narratologie und Recht von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, 91-105, Basel.

Hatzistavrou, A. (2019) “The authority of law in Plato’s CritoCanadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 32, 365-87.

Hatzistavrou, A. (2018) “Plato’s legal positivism in the Laws” Jurisprudence 9, 209-35.

Kuniñcki, T. (2011) “Plato’s Crito on civil disobedience and political obligations” Peitho 2, 139-58.

Lisi, F. L. (2019) “Justice in the ninth book of Plato’s Laws and in the fifth book of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics” in: Farrington, S. T. (ed) Enthousiasmos: essays in ancient philosophy, history and literature. Festschrift für Eckart Schütrumpf on his 80th birthday, 51-65, Baden-Baden.

Marren, M. (2020) «‘Against Simon’ and ‘On a wound by premeditation’: Lysias’ court speeches writing carreer as the legal background of the Phaedrus» Journal of Graeco-Roman Studies 59/3, 39-56.

McKeen, C. (2024) “Law and political expertise in Plato’s StatesmanArchai 34 https://www.scielo.br/j/archai/a/vZBFJzmnYH3fJymf4N7JpzG/?format=pdf&lang=en

Meital, A. & J. Agassi (2007) «Slaves in Plato’s Laws» Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37, 315-47.

Mousourakis, G. (2024) “Legislation, legal development and anomie in Plato’s legal philosophy” Hiroshima Law Journal 47/4, 208-32.

Méndez Aguirre, V. H. (2024) “Justicia polimorfa y equidad de género en Platón” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 135-42, Santa Rosa.

Piechowiak, M. (2015) “Plato’s conception of punitive justice” in: Incampo, A. & W. Źełaniec (eds) Universality of punishment, 73-96, Bari.

Solis, E. (2024) “Preambular persuasion as proleptic engagement: The legislative strategy of Plato’s LawsCQ 74, 485-98.

Stephanides, St. (2025) “The connection between political equality and justice in the Gorgias: a re-reading of ‘geometrical’ equality (508a)” Polis 42, 196-217.

Tzōrtzopoulos, Ch. (1929) “Hē poinē kata Platōna” Archeion Philosophias kai Theōrias tōn Epistēmōn 4, 421-39.

Valiquette Moreau, N. (2017) “Civic piety: Plato and reverence for the rule of law” History of Political Thought 38, 385-408.

 

 

History  

see also Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum http://www.dfhg-project.org/

Moggi, M. (2001) “Il sinecismo di Tebe nelle Elleniche di Ossirinco” Sileno 27, 175-88.

Moggi, M. (1974) “Il sinecismo di Megalopoli (Diod., 15, 72, 4; Paus., 8, 27, 1-8)” ASNP ser. III 4/1, 71-107.

 

Herodotus

Cairns, D. L. (2019) „Honour and kingship in Herodotus: Status, role, and the limits of self-assertion“ Frontiers of Philosophy in China 14, 75-93.

 

Thucydides

Bolmarcich, S. (2012) “Thucydides’ theory of negotiation” in: Wilker, J. (ed) Maintaining peace and interstate stability in archaic and classical Greece, 78-91, Mainz.

Castoriadis, C. (2011) Thucydide, la force et le droit. Ce qui fait la Grèce. 3. Séminaires 1984-1985, Paris.

Moggi, M. (1975) “Sunoikizein in Tucidide” ASNP ser. III 5/3, 915-24.

 

Xenophon

 

 

Lexica

 

Other literary sources

Bauer, Th. J. (2024) “‘Law is the model and shape of the constitution’. Reflections on law, custom, and political order in Strabo’s GeographicaReligion in the Roman Empire 10, 193-221.

Tieleman, T. (2024) «The medical law. The Hippocratic The Law and the pseudo-Platonic Minos» Religion in the Roman Empire 10, 180-92.

 

Inscriptions – see also:

Texts:  https://epigraphy.packhum.org/

Texts and literature: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum

Fabiani, R. (2018) “La concia delle pelli e le acque dell’Ilisso: osservazioni su un documento normativo a carattere religioso (IG I3 257)” Hormos 10, 371-406.

Georgiadou, A. (2010) “La tablette d’Idalion réexaminée” Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Chypriotes 40, 141-203.

Hunt, P. (2025) “Wealthy Athenian wives and the female slaves missing from the Attic StelaiClassAnt 44, 1-38.

Langdon, M. (1987) “An Attic decree concerning Oropos” Hesperia 56, 47-58.

Lilo, A. (1988) “On the reading of IG V 2, 262, 23” ZPE 73, 86-88.

Lind, H. (1987) “Sokrates am Ilissos. IG I3 257 und die Eingangsszene des platonischen PhaidrosZPE 69, 15-19.

Lombardo, M. (2005) “The psephisma of Lumbarda: a new fragment” in: Sanader, M. (ed) Illyrica antiqua. Ob honorem Duje Rendić-Miočević (radovi s medunarodnoga skupa o problemima anticke arheologije, Zagreb, 6.-8. 11. 2003), 354-60, Zagreb.

Lombardo, M. (1993) „Lo psephisma di Lumbarda: note critiche e questioni esegetiche” Hespería 3, 161-88.

Marohnić, J., Potrebica, H. & M. Vuković (2021) “A new fragment of the Greek land division decree from Lumbarda on the island of Korčula” ZPE 220, 137-43.

Matthaiou, Ang. P. (2024) “Attikou psephismatos (IG ii2 24) episkepsis” in: Makres, A. & P. J. Rhodes (eds) Grammata archaia. Studies in memory f David M. Lewis (1928-1994), 241-71, Athens.

Matthaious, Ang. P. (2006) “Treis epigraphes Chiou” in: Malouchou, G. E. & Ang. P. Matthaiou (eds) Chiakon Symposion eis mnēmēn W. G. Forrest, 103-36, Athens.

Minola, A. (2024) “Una nota numismatica alla ‘Legge di Chios’” ASAA 102, 105-14.

Negro, S. (2024) “Decreto attico sui doveri del demarco” Axon 8, 99-118.

Perdicoyianni-Paleologou, H. (2021) “La tablette de bronze d’Idalion” Axon 5/1, 31-72.

Papazarkadas, N. (2009) “The decree of Aigeis and Aiantis (Agora I 6793) revisited” in: Papazarkadas, N. & A. A.

Themos (eds) Attika Epigraphika. Meletes pros timen tou Christian Habicht, 165-81, Athens.

Prignitz, S. & G. Thür (2025) “Problems with Some Buildings in the Sanctuary of Epidauros: The ‘Stele of the Punishments’”. Hesperia 94, 185-223.

Psoma, S. E. & Harris, E. M. (2025) "Redating and Rethinking the ‘Dophitis’ Inscription" ZPE 233, 79-83.

Ricl, M., Koparal, E. & C. Tanriver (2025) “Aristotle’s friend Hermias in a new inscription from Ionia” ZPE 232, 97-115.

Savo, M. B. (2024) “Regolamento dal santuario di Anfirao ad Oropo” Axon 8, 65-83.

Tribulato, O. (2019) “La legge tardo-arcaica di Himera (SEG 47, no 1427; IGDS ii no 15). Un riesame linguistico ed epigrafico” Pallas 109, 167-93.

 

Manuals – introductory essays

 

Methodology

 

Bibliographies

 

Fundamental principles

Legal concepts

Krikona, E. (2024) “Archaic isonomia and the development of equality between mass and elite” AncSoc 54, 1-57.

Magoja, E. E. (2024) “Decisión judicial y el problema del criterio para corregir la ley en la teoría de la equidad de Aristóteles” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 124-34, Santa Rosa.

Pepe, L. (2024) “Responsibility and legal thought in ancient Greece” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 151-63, Santa Rosa.

Pettit, Ph. (2019) “Athens and the rule of law: An essay in honour of Martin Krygier” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 11, 289-94.

Ramirez Vidal, G. (2024) “La epieikeia en la Retórica de Aristóteles” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 164-81, Santa Rosa.

 

Dispute settlement and litigation

 

Origins of law

Nikias, K. (2025) “Order, language, and property: Textual formulae and legal relations in the Mycenaean Greek land records” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 38, 877-900.

Nikias, K. (2024) “Early Greek legal history and the Mycenaean sources” Dike 27, 65-120.

 

Writing and codification

 

Themis, Dike, Thesmos, Nomos, Psephisma

 

Law and legislators

 

Lycurgus

 

Draco

 

Solon

Flament, Chr. (2024) «Le traitement des réformes économiques soloniennes antérieur à la rédaction de l’Athenaion Politeia» LEC 92, 155-202.

Petre, Z. (2010) «Solon şi ‘buna guvernare’» Buletinum Mezeului ‘Teohari Antonescu’ 13, 23-32. (= Mihut, Fl. (ed) Zoe Petre. De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique, I, 365-76, Cluj-Napoca 2024)

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) The thetes of Athens. Dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC), Lausanne.

 

Interpretation of laws

 

Human and fundamental rights

Dimopoulou, A. (2025) “‘Fundamental rights’ and the rule of law in ancient Greece and Rome” in: Rodomonte, M.-G. & L. Durst (eds) Judicial review and rule of law. The construction of the European constitutional identity, 3-18, London.

 

Relation of Greek laws to other legal systems

Wu, Ya. (2024) “At the crossroads of civilizations: A comparative analysis of the development of legal thought in ancient China and the West” Foreign Affairs 34/6, 83-90.

 

Conflict of laws

 

Justice and law

Straumann, B. (2025) The just state. Greek and Roman theories of justice and their legacy in Western thought, Hoboken, NJ.

 

Natural law

Sancho Rocher, L. (2024) „La ley común de los antiguos griegos y la ley natural de los modernos: un análisis comparativo“ in: Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) Democracia, ley e instituciones (antiguas e modernas), 111-38, Madrid.

 

Legal terminology

 

Polis

Cabanes, P. (1989) „Cité et ethnos dans la Grèce ancienne“ in: Mélanges Levêque, II, 63-82. (= Quantin, Fr. (ed) (2024) Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité. Opera Selecta Pierre Cabanes, I, 311-30, Athènes)

Carabillò, C. (2024) “Considerazioni sulla segretezza del voto nel mondo greco” Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Nava 29, 33-52.

Carabillò, C. (2023) “Le procedure di voto nel mondo greco: la documentazione epigraphica” Scienze dell’Antichità 29/2, 191-200.

Castoriadis, C. (2008) Ce qui fait la Grèce 2. La cité et ses lois. Séminaires 1983-1984, Paris.

Dreher, M. (2024) “Der moderne Staatsbegriff und die Transformation der griechischen Polis zum Staat” Dike 27, 9-64.

Franco San Román, M. (2024) “La institución de la prostasía y la figura del prostátes toû démou en textos del siglo V a.C.” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 73-86, Santa Rosa.

Gudelis, M. (2020) “Demochronos: The political time of the Athenian democracy” Constellations 27/3, 375-84.

Harris, E. M. (2024) “Atenas, ¿un Estado o una comunidad sin Estado? El context político del derecho ateniense” in: Buis, E. J. & E. Esteban Magoja (eds) La fuerza de la ley: Derecho, política, y violencia en la Grecia, 65-106, Santiago.

Moggi, M. (2007) “La polis e le altre organizzazioni politico-territoriali: formazione e sviluppi” in: Giangiulio, M. (ed) Storia d’Europa e del Mediterraneo, II.3. La Grecia, 93-130, Roma.

Moggi, M. (2006) “Kome, polis ed ethnos in Arcadia” QUCC 84, 121-8.

Negro, S. (2024) “Decreto attico sui doveri del demarco” Axon 8, 99-118.

 

Civic subdivisions

Ackermann, D. (2023) “Les frères en politique à Athènes aux époques classique et hellénistique: jeux d’échelles entre familles, dèmes et cité” in: Hamon, P. & Ivana Savalli-Lestrade (eds) Fratries et relations adelphiques dans les cités grecques (IVe s. a.C. – IIe s. p.C.), 137-63, Paris.

Bardani, V. (2025) “Nees martyries gia tē phyletikē organōsē stēn archaia Messēnē” in: Matthaiou, A. P. (ed) Periēgētēs. Peloponnesiakes meletes eis mnēmēn G. A. Pikoula (1956-2022), 193-208, Athens.

Langdon, M. (1987) “An Attic decree concerning Oropos” Hesperia 56, 47-58.

Malouchou, G. (2006) “Nea epigraphē genōn” in: Malouchou, G. E. & Ang. P. Matthaiou (eds) Chiakon Symposion eis mnēmēn W. G. Forrest, 81-94, Athens.

Papazarkadas, N. (2009) “The decree of Aigeis and Aiantis (Agora I 6793) revisited” in: Papazarkadas, N. & A. A. Themos (eds) Attika Epigraphika. Meletes pros timen tou Christian Habicht, 165-81, Athens.

Stainchaouer, G. (1992) “Duo timetika psephismata ton Acharneon” A.Eph. 131, 179-93.

Taylor, M. C. (1997) Salamis and the Salaminioi. The history of an unofficial Athenian demos, Amsterdam.

 

Archives

Filias, D. (2025) “Collaboration between the secretary of the Athenian council and the generals. Recordkeeping and accountability of officials in late fifth-century BC Athens” Mouseion 20, 229-44.

 

Constitutions

Cuniberti, G. (2024) “Les rôles non institutionnels de représentation et de protection dans la Grèce ancienne” Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 13/26, 3.1-16.

 

Basileia (Kingship)

Cabanes, P. (1980) „Société et institutions dans les monarchies de Grèce septentrionale au IVe siècle“ REG 93, 324-51. (= Quantin, Fr. (ed) (2024) Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité. Opera Selecta Pierre Cabanes, II, 655-82, Athènes)

Cairns, D. L. (2019) „Honour and kingship in Herodotus: Status, role, and the limits of self-assertion“ Frontiers of Philosophy in China 14, 75-93.

 

Oligarchia (Oligarchy)

 

Demokratia (Democracy)

Barcelo, P. (2006) “Los tiranicidos y la construcción del mito democrático en Atenas” in: Marco Simon, F., Pina Polo, F. & J. Remesal Ródriguez (eds) Repúblicas y ciudadanos: modelos de participación civica en el mundo antiguo, 55-70, Barcelona.

Camassa, G. (2018) “Ripensando il concetto di ‘democrazia recitativa’” MedAnt 21, 285-94.

Lasagni, Ch. (2024) “The Athenian democracy. A user’s guide” Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 13/26, 2.2-36

Osborne, R. (2024) “The politics of the amendment and the transformation of Athenian democracy” in: Makres, A. & P. J. Rhodes (eds) Grammata archaia. Studies in memory f David M. Lewis (1928-1994), 289-99, Athens.

Simonton, M. (2025a) “‘Ambition for office’ and the nature of election in ancient Greek democracies” Journal of Sortition 1, 109-36.

Simonton, M. (2025b) “How did ancient Greek democracies die? Not (normally) by demagoguery” in: Vervaet, F. J., Rafferty, D. & Chr. J. Dart (eds) How Republics die. Creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond, 25-37, Berlin.

 

Tyrannis (Tyranny)

 

Magistrates

Amor, S. A. (2025) “Antes des las Arginusas: participación popular y control de los magistrados en los albores de polis griega” Circe de clásicos y modernos 29, 59-78.

Chamoux, F. (1988) “Les comptes des démiurges à Cyrène” in: Knoepfler, D. (ed) Comptes et inventaires dans la cité grecque, 143-54, Neuchâtel.

Filias, D. (2025) “Collaboration between the secretary of the Athenian council and the generals. Recordkeeping and accountability of officials in late fifth-century BC Athens” Mouseion 20, 229-44.

O’Connell, P. A. (2025) “Institutions, character and relevance: Keeping to the point in dokimasiai” in: Harris, E. M. & A. Esu (eds) Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Law, Character and Rhetoric, 120-48, Edinburgh.

Simonton, M. (2025) “‘Ambition for office’ and the nature of election in ancient Greek democracies” Journal of Sortition 1, 109-36.

 

Nomothesia (Legislation)

Romikiewicz, J. (2023) «Dekret Demofantosa – ateńskie prawo przeciw tyranii» Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 4236, 353-69.

 

Stasis, exile, reconciliation

Bile, M. (2025) «Les cités crétoises face à la violence: stratégies plurielles» Cahiers des études anciennes 62 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 11 avril 2025, consulté le 18 avril 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesanciennes/6212

Dimopoulou, A. (2024) “La violencia política en Lesbos en la época de Alceo y Pitaco” in: Buis, E. J. & E. E. Magoja (eds) La fuerza de la ley: Derecho, política, y violencia en la Grecia, 51-64, Santiago.

Hatzistavrou, A. (2013) “Faction” in: Deslauriers, M. & P. Destrée (eds) The Cambridge companion to Aristotle’s Politics, 275-300, Cambridge.

Jégo, Emm. (2025) «Irruption de la violence comique et tentative de résolution par le juridique dans la comédie d’Aristophane (Ve siècle a.C.)» Cahiers des études anciennes 62 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 10 avril 2025, consulté le 18 avril 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesanciennes/6055

Markakes, I. M. (2024) “Staseis kai phyles stēn Hierapytna” Amaltheia 55/216-219, 35-45.

Petrazoller, Chr. (2025) «Luttes intestines (staseis) et comportements radicaux: quand la violence fait irruption dans la cité grecque (IVe au Ier siècle avant a.C.)» Cahiers des études anciennes 62 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 11 avril 2025, consulté le 18 avril 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesanciennes/6250

Caruso, Val. (2025) «Power, wealth and privilege in Euripides’ representation of stasis» Cahiers des études anciennes 62 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 11 avril 2025, consulté le 18 avril 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesanciennes/6261

Ricl, M., Koparal, E. & C. Tanriver (2025) “Aristotle’s friend Hermias in a new inscription from Ionia” ZPE 232, 97-115.

Youni, M. S. (2024) “Violencia política y la respuesta de la ley en la antigua Grecia” in: Buis, E. J. & E. E. Magoja (eds) La fuerza de la ley: Derecho, política, y violencia en la Grecia, 107-32, Santiago.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) The thetes of Athens. Dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC), Lausanne.

 

Ostracism

Degelmann, Chr. (2023) «Schwätzer oder Hexer? Ein Ostrakon gegen Leagros Glaukonos (Kerameikos O 5847)» Tyche 38, 25-35.

Lewis, D. M. (1974) «The Kerameikos ostraka» ZPE 14, 1-4.

Maillot, St. (2025) «L’ostracisme, le pharmakon de la démocratie athénienne» in: Lamoine, L. & J. Bouchet (eds) Les mises à l’écart politiques. Des périphéricités paradoxales, 21-46, Clairmont-Ferrand.

Williams, G. M. E. (1978) «The Kerameikos ostraka» ZPE 31, 103-13.

 

Polis finances, taxation, coinage

Borsano, L. B. (2023) “C’era una volta la rivoluzione. Intorno a un celebrazione da Zelea sul rempero dei terreni pubblici” in: Camia, Fr. & Fr. Guizzi (eds) Notizie delle epigrafi greche. Ricerche, progetti, prospettive di una disciplina (Atti del VII Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG)), 161-75, Roma.

Figueira, T. J. (2005) “The imperial commercial tax and the finances of the Athenian hegemony” Incidenza dell’Antico 3, 83-133.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) The thetes of Athens. Dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC), Lausanne.

 

 

Status

 

Age classes

Bile, M. (1992) “Les termes relatifs à l’initiation dans les inscriptions crétoises (VIIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C.)” in: Moreau, A. (ed) L’initiation (Actes du colloque international de Montpellier, 11-14 avril 1991), 11-18, Montpellier.

 

Citizenship

Cabanes, P. (2000) „Le citoyen dans la cité et l’ethnos en Grèce antique“ in: Fieret, Cl. (ed) Invention et réinvention de la citoyenneté (Actes du colloque international de Pau, 9-11 décembre 1998), 45-56, Aubertin. (= Quantin, Fr. (ed) (2024) Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité. Opera Selecta Pierre Cabanes, I, 371-82, Athènes)

Campa, N. T. (2025) “The Plataians in Athens: Citizens in an enclave?” TAPhA 155, 1-34.

Cole, S. G. (1996) “Oath rituals and the male community at Athens” in: Ober, J. & Ch. Hedrick (eds) Demokratia.A conversation on democracies, ancient and modern, 227-48, Princeton.

Faraguna, M. (2025) “Aristotele, la polis, il cittadino: Prospettive storiche e filosofiche” in: Canevaro, M. &C. Zizza (eds) Aristotele la Politica. Guida, 215-46, Roma.

Plácido, D. (2006) “Liturgias, evergetismo y mistoforía: los modos de reditribución de la ciudad democrática” in: Marco Simon, F., Pina Polo, F. & J. Remesal Ródriguez (eds) Repúblicas y ciudadanos: modelos de participación civica en el mundo antiguo, 41-54, Barcelona.

Poddighe, E. (2024) “Il problema della responsabilità politica nella discussion di Aristotele sulla cittadinanza (con una appendice su Leo Strauss)” in: Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) Democracia, ley e instituciones (antiguas e modernas), 139-65, Madrid.

Faraguna, M. (2024) “Land and citizenship in the Greek polis: Real property, public control, and institutionalisation” Dike 27, 121-74.

Kuniñcki, T. (2011) “Plato’s Crito on civil disobedience and political obligations” Peitho 2, 139-58.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) The thetes of Athens. Dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC), Lausanne.

 

Phratries

 

Metics (Resident foreigners)

Futo Kennedy, R. (2025) «Race and the Athenian metic» in: Skinner, J., Manolopoulou, V. & Chr. Tsouparopoulou (eds) Identities in antiquity, 309-30, London.

 

Xenoi

Cabanes, P. (1992) „L’étranger dans les cités d’Epidamne-Dyrrachion et d’Apollonie d’Illyrie“ in: Lonis, R. (ed) L’étranger II, 87-105. (= Quantin, Fr. (ed) (2024) Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité. Opera Selecta Pierre Cabanes, I, 215-34, Athènes)

van Effenterre, H. (1979) “Le statut comparé des travailleurs étrangers en Chypre, Crète et autres lieux à la fin de l’ archaïsme” in: Acts of the international archaeological symposium “The relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 B.C.” (Nicosia, 16th April-22nd April 1978), 279-93, Nicosia.

 

Freedmen

 

Slaves

see also Bibliographie zur antiken Sklaverei http://www.adwmainz.de/index.php?id=322

Anastasiadis, M. (2025) «Slave medical treatment in classical Greece before and after the slave market» Historia 74, 130-60.

Bentley, R. (1999) “Loving freedom: Aristotle on slavery and the Good Life” Political Studies 47, 100-13.

Cabral Bernardo, G. (2025) «Helot Dishonour and Spartan Identity» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 83-101, Edinburgh.

Cairns, D. (2025) “Honour and the Rhetoric of Slavery in Herodotus” in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 27-37, Edinburgh.

Cambiano, G. (1987) “Aristotle and the anonymous opponents of slavery” Slavery and Abolition 8, 22-41.

Canevaro, M. (2025) «Recognition and Imbalances of Power: Honour Relations and Slaves’ Claims vis-à-vis Their Masters» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 118-38, Edinburgh.

Ducat, J. (1990) «Esclaves au Ténare» in: Mélanges Lévêque 4, 173-93.

Fisher, N. (2025) «Whose Honour? Hubris, Slavery and the Athenian Law Once More» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 198-225, Edinburgh.

Forsdyke, S. (2015) “Slaves, stories, and cults. Conflict resolution between master and slaves in ancient Greece” Common Knowledge 21, 19-43.

Gallego, J. (2025) “El campesinado y la esclavitud doméstica en la Grecia Antigua” in: Alvar Nuño, A. & D. Pérez de la Vega (eds) Esclavitud histórica, ideología contemporánea, 85-102, Barcelona.

Garver, E. (1994) “Aristotle’s natural slaves: Incomplete praxeis and incomplete human beings” Journal of the History of Philosophy 32, 173-95.

Harrington, J. D. (1989) “Classical antiquity and the proslavery argument” Slavery and Abolition 10, 60-72.

Hunt, P. (2025) “Wealthy Athenian wives and the female slaves missing from the Attic StelaiClassAnt 44, 1-38.

Hunt, P. (2017) “Slaves as Active Subjects: Individual Strategies” in: Hodkinson, St., Kleijwegt, M. & K. Vlassopoulos (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575251.013.19

Kamen, D. (2025) «‘Privileged’ Slaves and Honour in Classical Athens» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 226-38, Edinburgh.

Kyrtatas, D. (1987) Douloi, douleia kai douloktētikos tropos paragōgēs stēn hellēnikē kai rōmaïkē archaiotēta, Athena.

Lewis, D. (2025) “Greek Slavery and Honour: Institutional and Prototypical Approaches” in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 38-59, Edinburgh.

Lewis, D. & M. Anastasiadis (2024) «The Inside Woman: A New Solution to the Riddle of the Endothidia Dola (IC IV 72 II 11–16)» ZPE 232, 129-41.

Mazzinghi Gori, B. (2025) «Negotiating Respect and Oikeiotês: The Honour of Menander’s Slaves» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 139-58, Edinburgh.

McKeown, N. (2017) «Slaves as Active Subjects: Collective Strategies» in: Hodkinson, St., Kleijwegt, M. & K. Vlassopoulos (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575251.013.25

Meital, A. & J. Agassi (2007) «Slaves in Plato’s Laws» Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37, 315-47.

Patterson, O. (2003) «Reflections on helotic slavery: Past and present» in: Luraghi, N. & S. E. Alcock (eds) Helots and their masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, ideologies, structures, 289-309, Cambridge, MA.

Pellegrin, P. (2013) «Natural slavery» in: Deslauriers, M. & P. Destrée (eds) The Cambridge companion to Aristotle’s Politics, 92-116, Cambridge.

Petre, Z. (1963) «Les sophistes et la question de l’esclavage» Acta Antiqua Philoppolitana. Studia historica et philologica, 75-79, Sofia. (= Mihut, Fl. (ed) Zoe Petre. De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique, I, 507-18, Cluj-Napoca 2024)

Porter, J. (2025) «Honour as a Privilege: Slave Hierarchies and Master-Slave Relationships in the Household-Management Texts of Classical Athens» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 159-78, Edinburgh.

Porter, J. (2025) Diverse slaveries. Slaving strategies and experiences of slavery in classical Athens, Edinburgh.

Reboreda Morillo, S. (2025) “Vulnerabilidad y dependencia en la épica homérica: dentro y fuera del oikos” in: Alvar Nuño, A. & D. Pérez de la Vega (eds) Esclavitud histórica, ideología contemporánea, 41-56, Barcelona.

Ross, D. L. (2008) “Aristotle’s ambivalence on slavery” Hermathena 184, 53-67.

Roth, U. (2025) “The Space in Between: Honourable Slaves and the Theory of Natural Slavery” in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 60-82, Edinburgh.

Schütrumpf, E. (1993) “Aristotle’s theory of slavery: A Platonic dilemma” Ancient Philosophy 13, 111-23.

Tandy, D. (2025) «Slavery, Honour and Ideology in Homer’s World» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 103-17, Edinburgh.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) The thetes of Athens. Dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC), Lausanne.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) «La deuda creadora de dependencias y fuente de explotación en Atenas clásica» in: Alvar Nuño, A. & D. Pérez de la Vega (eds) Esclavitud histórica, ideología contemporánea, 57-72, Barcelona.

Vater, A. (2025) Die Schuldknechtschaft in Gortyn: eine Studie zur Inkonsistenz von sozialem und rechtlichem Status, Bonn.

Vlassopoulos, K. (2025) «The Multiple Honours of Enslaved People in Ancient Greek Societies» in: Lewis, D., Canevaro, M. & D. Cairns (eds) Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world, 179-97, Edinburgh.

Vlassopoulos, K. (2022) Enslaved persons and their multiple identities in ancient societies, Berlin.

Vlassopoulos, K. (2021) Historicising ancient slavery, Edinburgh.

Waggoner, A. (2025) “Aristotle and the binds of natural slavery” Polis 42, 243-78.

Zelnick-Abramovitz, R. (2023) “The slave who made it: Narratives of manumitted slaves in the Greek world” in: Bischoff, J., Conermann, S. & M. Gymnich (eds) Naming, defining, phrasing strong asymmetrical dependencies, 149-68, Berlin.

 

Women and law

see also https://diotima-doctafemina.org/

Cabanes, P. (1983) „La place de la femme dans l’Epire antique“ Iliria 13/2, 201-9. (= Quantin, Fr. (ed) (2024) Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité. Opera Selecta Pierre Cabanes, I, 105-14, Athènes)

Duce Pastor, E. (2024) „Cuidando de las esposas e hijas: las leyes protectoras de la mujeres en la Atenas clásica“ in: Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) Democracia, ley e instituciones (antiguas e modernas), 35-58, Madrid.

Gallegos, L. (2025) „Kyrieía y oîkos en Medea e Hipsipila de Eurípides: dos tragicos modos de circulación femenina“ Circe de clásicos y modernos 29, 79-98.

McClure, L. (2024) Phryne of Thespiae. Courtesan, muse, and myth, Oxford.

Petre, Z. (1980) „Astoxenoi. À propos du statut des femmes dans la cité d’Eschyle“ Revue Roumaine d’Histoire 19, 173-81. (= Mihut, Fl. (ed) Zoe Petre. De la Mer Égée au Pont Euxin. Études d’histoire politique et culturelle antique, I, 507-18, Cluj-Napoca 2024)

 

Associations

see also Copenhagen Association Project https://copenhagenassociations.saxo.ku.dk/inventory-of-ancient-associations-database/

Malouchou, G. (2019) “To Herakleion tōn Mesogeiōn. Hoi epigraphikes marturies” in: Matthaiou, Ang. P. & B. N. Bardani (eds) Stephanōi stephanos. Meletes eis mnēnēn Stephanou N. Koumanoudē (1931-1987), 67-97, Athens.

Thiam, P. B. (2024) “Le caractère politique des relations interpersonnelles à Athènes” Afrosciences Antiquity Sunu-Xalaat 1, 42-58.

 

Family and inheritance

Ferrucci, St. (2012) “Matrimoni, figli, parentela nel mondo greco” in: Eco, U. (ed) Storia della civiltà europea, 263-70, Milano.

 

Household

 

Kinship

 

Guardianship

 

Marriage

 

Dowry

 

Divorce

 

Illegitimacy

 

Adoption

 

Wills

 

Succession ab intestato

 

Epikleros

 

Contractual and property relations

Alonso Moreno, Cl. V. (2024) “Landowning and the creation of private estates in Pylian pa-ki-ja-ne” in: Bennet, J., Karnava, A. & T. Meißner (eds) Ko-ro-no-we-sa. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies (September 2021), 259-70, Rethymno.

Ampolo, C. (1992) “The economics of the sanctuaries in southern Italy and Sicily” in: Linders, T. & B. Alroth (eds) Economics of cult in ancient world (Proceedings of the Uppsalla symposium 1990), 25-28, Uppsalla.

Di Piazza, S. & Cl. Marian (2023) “Pistis is said in many ways” Graeco-Latina Brunensia 28, 49-66.

Nikias, K. (2025) “Order, language, and property: Textual formulae and legal relations in the Mycenaean Greek land records” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 38, 877-900.

Prignitz, S. & G. Thür (2025) “Problems with Some Buildings in the Sanctuary of Epidauros: The ‘Stele of the Punishments’”. Hesperia 94, 185-223.

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2024) “Dankbarkeit und Freundschaft als Grundlage vertraglicher Konzepte im römischen und im griechischen Recht” in: Varvaro, M. & M. de Simone (eds) Scritti con Raimondo Santoro, 3, 823-75, Palermo.

 

Obligation

 

Contract

Pringsheim, F. (1954) “L’origine des contrats consensuels” RHDFE 32, 475-95.

 

Enktesis

 

Sale

Psoma, S. E. & Harris, E. M. (2025) "Redating and Rethinking the ‘Dophitis’ Inscription" ZPE 233, 79-83.

 

Lease

 

Mortgages and securities

Loginov, A. (2024) “Do ἀνδοκὰ ἐνκοιοτᾶν, [ἐν]κοιοτάνς signify surety?“ in: Eliseeva, L. G. & S. V. Smirnov (eds) Ergasterion: Svyaz' ponyatiy: real'naya, metaforicheskaya, paradoksal'nayan (Connection of concepts: real, metaphorical, paradoxical), 17-42, Moskva. (in Russian)

de Ruggiero, R. (1910) Il divieto d’alienazione del pegno nel diritto greco e romano, Cagliari.

 

Servitudes

 

Loan

Candy, P. (2025) Ancient maritime loan contracts, Ann Arbor.

Dimopoulou, A. (2024) “Reexamining the terms telos and demosia pistis of the first treaty between Roma and Carthage and the archaic Korkyra lead plaques recording debts: New approaches to old questions” Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 27, 11-33.

Hedderich, G. (2024) Tokos: Urkunden zum griechischen Zinswesen (6.-4. Jahrhundert vor Christus). I. Historischer Überblick, Wuppertal.

del Monaco, L. (2023) «Locri prima delle Tavole di Locri: istituzioni e strutture civiche tra VII e V sec. a.C.» Aristonothos 19, 217-36.

 

Endowments

Aneziri, S. (2025) Greek endowments in the classical and Hellenistic periods, Stuttgart.

 

Locatio

 

Other kinds of contracts

 

Trade and finance

del Monaco, L. (2023) «Locri prima delle Tavole di Locri: istituzioni e strutture civiche tra VII e V sec. a.C.» Aristonothos 19, 217-36.

 

Commercial law

Figueira, T. J. (2005) “The imperial commercial tax and the finances of the Athenian hegemony” Incidenza dell’Antico 3, 83-133.

 

Maritime law

Candy, P. (2025) Ancient maritime loan contracts, Ann Arbor.

 

Banks

 

Procedure

Graham, A. J. & R. A. Smith (1989) «An elipse in the Thasian decree about delation (ML 83)?» AJPh 110, 405-12.

Lilo, A. (1988) “On the reading of IG V 2, 262, 23” ZPE 73, 86-88.

 

Arbitration

 

Courts

 

Areopagos

 

Procedures (DikaiGraphai)

Delios, A. A. (2021) “He schessē tēs diamarturias me tē dikē pseudomarturiōn stēn klasikē Athēna” in: Kolotouros, P. H., Tsantinēs, Sp. K. & I. P. Matzouranēs (eds) Timētikos tomos Dēmētriou N. Maniōtē, 179-88, Thessalonikē.

 

Procedures (Extraordinary)

 

Antidosis

 

Antigraphē

 

Apagōgē

 

Apographē

 

Diadikasia

 

Diamarturia

Delios, A. A. (2021) “He schessē diamarturias me tē dikē pseudomarturiōn stēn klasikē Athēna” in: Kolotouros, P. H., Tsantinēs, Sp. K. & I. P. Matzouranēs (eds) Timētikos tomos Dēmētriou N. Maniōtē, 179-88, Thessalonikē.

 

Dokimasia

 

Eisangelia

 

Endeixis

 

Ephēgēsis

 

Paragraphē

 

Phasis

Clinton, K. (2025) “Myesis, phasis, and the role of the Boule (I.Eleusis 138)” Grammateion 14, 5-9.

 

Probolē

 

Skēpsis

 

Famous trials

Gallego, J. (2025) “El (des)orden de la política ton dēmon prattein ho an bouletai. La asemblea ateniense y el juicio de las Arginusas” Circe de clásicos y modernos 29, 15-38.

 

Personnel

 

Proofs

Filonik J. (2024) “The organization of evidence in Athenian courts: Containers, seals and the management of documents” CQ 74, 499-510.

 

Witnesses

 

Torture (Basanos)

 

Oaths

Graham, A. J. & R. A. Smith (1989) «An elipse in the Thasian decree about delation (ML 83)?» AJPh 110, 405-12.

 

Enforcement

Blümel, W. (1993) “SGDI 5727 (Halikarnassos): Eine Revision” Kadmos 32, 1-18.

Marginesu, G. (2024) «Economia e rendicontazione nelle ‘stele attiche’ (IG I3 421-430)» PdP 79, 5-39.

 

Crime and punishment

van Effenterre, H. (1991) “Loi archaïque sur l’excès de boisson” in: van Effenterre, H., Kalpaxis, Th., Petropoulou, A. B. & E. Stavrianopoulou (eds) Eleutherna. Tomeas II.1. Epigraphes apo to Pyrgi kai to Nesi, 17-21, Rethymno.

Piechowiak, M. (2015) “Plato’s conception of punitive justice” in: Incampo, A. & W. Źełaniec (eds) Universality of punishment, 73-96, Bari.

Prignitz, S. & G. Thür (2025) “Problems with Some Buildings in the Sanctuary of Epidauros: The ‘Stele of the Punishments’”. Hesperia 94, 185-223.

Riess, W. (2023) “The representation of crime and criminals in ancient Greece” in: Lanni, A. (ed) A global history of crime and punishment. I. Antiquity, 177-201, London.

 

Homicide

Sabattini, L. A. (2024) «¿‘Asesinatos justos con la mano’ o ‘asesinatos con mano justiciera’? Una reflexión filologico-jurídica sobre Electra de Sófocles, v. 37» in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 182-98, Santa Rosa.

 

Hybris

Cairns, D. L. (2020) “Hybris and injustice in Aristotle” in: Veillard, C., Renaut, O. & D. El Murr (eds) Les philosophes face au vice, de Socrate à Augustin, 147-74, Leiden.

Cairns, D. L. (2024) “Hybris, ancient and modern” in: Giannakis, G. K., Papangelis, Th. & A. Rengakos (eds) The future of the past. Why Classical Studies still matter, 155-74, Berlin. (= “Húbris antiga y moderna” Archai 34 (2024) on line)

Kasai, Y. (2019) “Information in the ancient and modern. Hybris and defamation in ancient Greek and Roman law” in: Babusiaux, U. & M. Igimi (eds) ‘Messages from antiquity’. Roman law and current legal debates, 185-214, Köln.

Pecorella Longo, G. (2002) “Le pietri (o gli alteri) di hybris e di anaideiaPrometheus 28, 19-40.

 

Sexual offences

Katsiva, F. (2024) “El adulterio en la Antigua Atenas” in: Buis, E. J., Druille, P. & D. M. Santos (eds) Estudios sobre fuentes juridicas griegas en epoca clasica, helenistica y romana I (Actas de las primeras jornadas internacionales de derecho griego antiguo y tardo-antiguo, Buenos Aires, 18 y 19 de Noviembre, 2021), 103-9, Santa Rosa.

 

Theft

 

Other offences

 

Penalties

Karayannidis, Ch. (2024) “‘Eirgestai tōn nomimōn’. Mia adromerēs periēgēsē ston kosmo tōn poinōn stēn archaia Athēna” in: Hē enklēmatologikē skepsē apo tēn archaiotēta ōs tis meres mas (Praktika sunedriou stē mnēmē tou kathēgētē Iakōbou Pharsedakē), 50-72, Athens.

 

Atimia

 

Confiscation of property

 

Death penalty

 

Epobelia

 

Exile

 

Imprisonment

 

Parakatabole

 

Environment and law

 

Religion and law

Cavanaugh, M. B. (1996) Eleusis and Athens. Documents in finance, religion, and politics in the fifth century B.C., Atlanta.

Fabiani, R. (2018) “La concia delle pelli e le acque dell’Ilisso: osservazioni su un documento normativo a carattere religioso (IG I3 257)” Hormos 10, 371-406.

Garland, R. (1996) “Strategies of religious intimidation and coercion in classical Athens” in: Hellström, P. & B. Alroth (eds) Religion and power in the ancient Greek world, 91-99, Uppsala.

Lind, H. (1987) “Sokrates am Ilissos. IG I3 257 und die Eingangsszene des platonischen PhaidrosZPE 69, 15-19.

Ramon Palerm, V. M. & S. Vergara Recreo (2024) «(Ir)religiosidad e innovacione léxico-semánticas en Antifonte: La Tetralogía segunda» Talia dixit 19, 209-23.

Versnel, H. S. (1991) “Beyond cursing: The appeal to justice in judicial prayers” in: Faraone, C. A. & D. Obbink (eds) Magika hiera: Ancient Greek magic and religion, 60-106, New York.

 

Asebeia (Impiety)

 

Asylia (Inviolability)

 

Defixiones (Curses)

del Amor López Jimeno, M. (1992) “Zu einer Fluchtafel vom Athener Kerameikos” ZPE 91, 201-2.

Candido, M. R. (1998) “A violência das palavras nas imprecaçoes judiciárias” Phoînix 4, 363-70.

Costabile, F. (1999) “KatadesmoiMDAI (A) 114, 87-104.

Jordan, D. (2003) „Towards the text of a curse tablet from the Athenian Kerameikos” in: Attikai Epigraphai (Praktika symposiou eis mnemen Adolf Wilhelm (1864-1950)), 291-312, Athens.

Santiago Alvarez, R.-A. (1990/91) “Sobre las ‘Teiorum dirae’” Faventia 12/13, 327-52.

Versnel, H. S. (1987) “Les imprécations et le droit” RHDFE 65, 5-22.

Wolicki, A. (2012) “A note on a defixio from the Kerameikos” ZPE 180, 250-2.

 

Leges sacrae – ritual norms see also http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be

Curti, E. & R. van Bremen (1999) “Notes on the lex sacra from Selinous” Ostraka 8, 21-33.

Dobias-Lalou, C. (1996) “Le cinquième commandement de la loi sacrée di Cyrène” in: Bacchielli, L. & M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds) Scritti di antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, 73-78, Roma.

Dubois, L. (1999) “La nouvelle loi sacrée de Sélinonte: bilan dialectologique” in: Cassio, A. C. (ed) Katà Diálekton (Atti del III Colloquio Internazionale di Dialettologia Greca: Napoli - Fiaiano d' Ischia, 25-28 settembre 1996), 331-46, Napoli.

Dubois, L. (1995) “Une nouvelle inscription archaïque de Sélinonte” RPh 68 (1995) 127-44.

Himmelmann, N. (1997) “Die Priesterschaft der Kyrbantes in Erythrai” Ep.An. 29, 117-21.

Malouchou, G. & Ang. P. Matthaiou (2012) “Hieros nomos Chiou” Grammateion 1, 57-62.

del Monaco, L. (2012) “Una lex sacra da Locri Epizefiri” in: Bevilacqua, G. & S. Campanelli (eds) Aretes heneken kai sophias. Un omaggio a Paola Lombardi (Giornata di studio, Roma, 28 ottobre 2010), 31-42, Roma.

Patera, M. (2010) Patera, Maria. “Alastores et elasteroi: à propos de la loi sacrée de Sélinonte” Métis n.s. 8, 277-308.

Savo, M. B. (2024) “Regolamento dal santuario di Anfirao ad Oropo” Axon 8, 65-83.

 

Inter-poleis relations

Bolmarcich, S. (2012) “Thucydides’ theory of negotiation” in: Wilker, J. (ed) Maintaining peace and interstate stability in archaic and classical Greece, 78-91, Mainz.

Moggi, M. (2001) “Il sinecismo di Tebe nelle Elleniche di Ossirinco” Sileno 27, 175-88.

Moggi, M. (1996) “I sinecismi greci del IV secolo a. C.” in: Carlier, P. (ed) Le IVe siècle av. J.-C. Approches historiographiques, 259-71, Nancy.

Moggi, M. (1991) “Sinecismi arcaici del Peloponneso” in: Musti, D., Sacconi, A., Rocchetti, L., Rocchi, M., Scafa, E., Sportiello, L. & M. E. Giannotta (eds) La transizione dal Miceneo all'Alto Arcaismo. Dal Palazzo alla Città (Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Roma, 14-19 marzo 1988), 155-65, Roma.

Moggi, M. (1987) “I sinecismi di Alicarnasso” QUCC 56, 113-25.

Moggi, M. (1976) “Il sinecismo di Tebe e la costituzione federale della Beozia nel V secolo a.C.” Critica Storica 13/2, 1-14.

Moggi, M. (1975) “Sunoikizein in Tucidide” ASNP ser. III 5/3, 915-24.

Moggi, M. (1974a) “Il sinecismo di Megalopoli (Diod., 15, 72, 4; Paus., 8, 27, 1-8)” ASNP ser. III 4/1, 71-107.

Moggi, M. (1974b) “I sinecismi e le annessioni territoriali di Argo nel V secolo a.C.” ASNP ser. III 4/4, 1249-63.

Shadsky, O. G. (2024) “Laws and customs of war in ancient Greece” Historical and legal problems: a new perspective 2024/2, 47-75. (in Russian)

 

Diplomacy

de Vido, St. (2025) «Politica e diplomazia in Sicilia» ASNP ser. 5, 17/1, 8-32.

 

International arbitration

 

Leagues - Federations

Bousquet, J. (1991) “L’administration du sanctuaire de Delphes au IVème siècle av. J.-Chr.” Cahiers Glotz 3, 21-29.

Lefèvre, F. (2005) “Les hiéromnémons de l’Amphictionie pyléo-delphique: l’apport de la prosopographie à l’histoire religieuse et politique de la Grèce ancienne (Ve siècle-Ier siècle avant J.-C.” in: Baslez, M.-Fr. & Fr. Prévot (eds) Prosopographie et histoire religieuse (Actes du colloque tenu en l'Université Paris XII-Val de Marne les 27 & 28 octobre 2000), 9-34, Paris.

Moggi, M. (2002) “Sulle origini della lega achea” in: Greco, E. (ed) Gli Achei e l’identità etnica degli Achei d’Occidente, 117-32, Paestum-Atene.

Moggi, M. (1976) “Il sinecismo di Tebe e la costituzione federale della Beozia nel V secolo a.C.” Critica Storica 13/2, 1-14.

 

Metropoleis and colonies

Knoepfler, D. (2012) “L’occupation d’Oropos par Athènes au IVe siècle avant J.-C.: une cléruchie dissimulée?” ASAA ser. 3 10, 439-54.

Moggi, M. (2008) “Fra apoikia e klerouchia: il caso di Lemno” in: Greco, E. & E. Papi (eds) Hephaestia 2000-2006. Ricerche e scavi della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene in collaborazione con il Dipartimento e Storia delle Arti dell'Università di Siena, 259-70, Peastum.

Moggi, M. (1995) “Emigrazioni forzate e divieti di ritorno nella colonizzazione greca dei secoli VIII-VII a.C.” in: Sordi, M. (ed) Coercizione e mobilità umana nel mondo antico, 27-49, Milano.

Moggi, M. (1987) “Organizzazione della chora, proprietà fondiaria e homonoia: il caso di Turi” ASNP ser. III 18/1, 65-88.

de Vido, St. (2023) “Spazio civico e spazio urbano. Ancora sulla lamina di Imera” Kokalos 60, 33-51.

 

Proxenia – see also http://proxenies.csad.ox.ac.uk/places/home

Inglese, A. (1996) “Theorodocoi e prosseni cretesi ad Epidauro” PdP 51, 351-9.

Moggi, M. (1995) “I proxenoi e la guerra nel V secolo a.C.” in: Frézouls, E. (ed) Les relations internationales (Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg), 143-59, Strasbourg.

 

Treaties – Symbola

Dimopoulou, A. (2024) “Reexamining the terms telos and demosia pistis of the first treaty between Roma and Carthage and the archaic Korkyra lead plaques recording debts: New approaches to old questions” Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 27, 11-33.

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2024) «Die Homologie bei Thukydides: Formular, Funktion und Debatte» Dike 27, 175-242.

Schlesinger, E. (1933) Die griechische Asylie, diss. Giessen.

Ziegler, W. (1975) Symbolai und Asulia, diss. Bonn.

 

 

Battistin Sebastiani, B. (2025) “Redes de apoio e comunicadades de migrantes na historiografia greca” Phaos 25, 1-16?.

Blok, J. (2025) “Philochoros, gifts of grain and the scrutiny of citizens” JHS ??, ??-??.

Canevaro, M. & L. Rocchi (2025) “Greek subjective rights? Justice, legal discourse, and legal institutions” in: Ando, Cl., Canevaro, M. & B. Straumann (eds) The Cambridge History of Rights 1. The Ancient World, ??-??, Cambridge.

Campeggiani, P. (2025) “Aristotle on subjective rights” in: Ando, Cl., Canevaro, M. & B. Straumann (eds) The Cambridge History of Rights 1. The Ancient World, ??-??, Cambridge.

Filonik, J. (2025) «Acquitted/convicted by a single vote? Aeschines 3.252 and vote counts in Athenian oratory» Mnemosyne 78, ??-??.

Rocchi, L. (2025) “Denominative verbs from atimia in the Attic orators and beyond” CQ ??, ??-??.

Voutyras-Pierre, A.-M. (2024) “Sens et reconnaissance juridique du traumatisme physique de guerre dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine” in: Andrieux, J.-P. (ed) Le droit par les sens, ??-??, Paris.

Wohl, V. (2024) “Violencia legal y el limite de la justicia” in: Buis, E. J. & E. E. Magoja (eds) La fuerza de la ley: Derecho, política, y violencia en la Grecia, 165-??, Santiago.