NOMOI. Bibliography on ancient Greek law(s)

Additions July - December 2025

Sources

 

 

Orators

Edwards, M. (2025) «Forensic Fearmongering. Making a Lasting Impression on the Judges» in: Gontijo Leite, P. & I. Worthington (eds) Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond, 33-45, London. 

Filonik, J. (2025) “The Scarcity Scare: The Topos of Limited Resources in Athenian Oratory” in: Gontijo Leite, P. & I. Worthington (eds) Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond, 46-62, London.

Serafim, A. (2025) «Boundaries and limitations: The features of invective in Attic forensic public and private speeches» in: Serafim, A. & R. Toczko (eds) The art of violence. Reapproaching invective in ancient Greek literature, 101-42, Kopenhagen. 

 

Aeschines

Filonik, J. (2025) «Acquitted/convicted by a single vote? Aeschines 3.252 and vote counts in Athenian oratory» Mnemosyne 78, 781-94. 

 

Andocides

Pedazzini, H. (2025) “Da pace privata a pace comune: L’origine della koine eirene secondo un’orazione di Andocide” in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nelsecolo di Alessandro, 29-50, Coimbra. 

 

Antiphon

 

Deinarchus

 

Demosthenes/Apollodorus

Gontijo Leite, P. (2025) «Hybris in Demosthenes’ Against Conon» » in: Serafim, A. & R. Toczko (eds) The art of violence. Reapproaching invective in ancient Greek literature, 169-88, Kopenhagen. 

Harris, E. M. (2025) «Demosthenes and the language of invective» in: Serafim, A. & R. Toczko (eds) The art of violence. Reapproaching invective in ancient Greek literature, 143-68, Kopenhagen.

Joyce, Chr. J. (2025) “Citizen nothoi? The cases of Phile (Isaeus 3) and two ‘Mantitheuses’ (Dem. 39 and [Dem.] 40)” Dike 28, https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/29738  

Šumenković, A. (2024) «Doctors on trials. The physician as a witness in Demosthenes’ oration Contra Cononem» Belgrade Philosophical Annual 37, 75-84.

Vergara Recreo, S. (2025) «Rumor, invectiva e irreligiosidad: el asesinato de Nicodemo en la oratoria (anti)demostenica» Euphrosyne 52, 47-61. 

 

Hypereides

 

Isaeus

Joyce, Chr. J. (2025) “Citizen nothoi? The cases of Phile (Isaeus 3) and two ‘Mantitheuses’ (Dem. 39 and [Dem.] 40)” Dike 28, https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/29738 

 

Isocrates

Bianco, E. (2025) «La patrios politeia dopo Isocrates. Tra continuità e cambiamento» in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, 51-66, Coimbra. 

Kossarev, D. (2024) «The criticism of monarchy in Isocrates’ Cyprian orations» Hyperboreus 30/2, 199-217.

 

Lycurgus

 

Lysias

Vergara Recreo, S. (2019) «Ateismo, retórica y política: el léxico irreligioso en Contra Andócides per impiedad de Lisias» Salduie 18-19, 359-62. 

Wolpert, A. (2025) «Was Lysias 1 delivered in an Athenian court?» SCI 24, 93-113.

 

Epic

 

Homer

 

Hesiod

Mullan, J. M. (2025) “The double meaning of strife in Hesiod” in: Mamary, A. J. & M. Trexler Drees (eds) Politeia. New readings in the history of philosophy, 211-26, New York. 

 

Tragedy

Ost, Fr. (2025) Les femmes dans la cité et la tragédie grecques, Paris. 

 

Aeschylus

 

Euripides

Abolafia, J. (2025) “‘No shame without divine necessity: Politics and impiety in Plato’s Laws and Euripides’ Hippolytus” History of Political Thought 46, 189-215. 

Protase, D. (1959) “Sclavii in opera lui Euripide şi conceptia sa despre sclavaj” StudClas 1, 77-90.

 

Sophocles

Seino Wiviurka, E. (2018) “Antigone by Sophocles and the fundamental legal issue: The eternal tension between legal certainty and normative correction” Anamorphosis 4, 77-104. 

 

 

Comedy

Labiano, M. & C. Morenilla (2023) «La democracia ateniense en clave de la comedia griega antigua» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 93-112, Madrid. 

 

Aristophanes

 

Menander

 

 

Philosophy

Pajón Leyra, Ig. (2023) “Cinismo griego y democracia” in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 175-91, Madrid. 

 

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

Alexandrescu, P. (1986) «Aristotel despre constitutia Histriei» StudClas 24, 63-70. 

Brandes, P. D. (1961) “Evidence in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” Speech Monographs 26, 21-28.

Cammack, D. (2022) “Kratos and other forms of power in the two Constitutions of the Athenians” Polis 39, 466-97. 

Gallego, J. (2025) “Aristóteles, entre la política y la biología: la dominación del ciudadano varón en la Grecia Antigua” Nova Tellus 43, 35-63.

Inamura, K. (2019) “Scientific classification and essentialism in the Aristotelian typology of constitutions” History of Political Thought 40, 196-218. 

Koumakis, G. Ch. (1985) “To ‘diorthōtiko’ dikaio ston Aristotelē” Dodone 14, 21-31.

Lockwood, T. C. (2024) “Carthage: Aristotle’s best (non-Greek) constitution” in: Castelnérac, B. & L. Monteils-Laeng (eds) Foreign influences. The circulation of knowledge in antiquity, 181-208, Turnhout. 

Piatkowski, A. (1962) «Hekōn amartanein» StudClas 4, 79-93. 

Poddighe, E. (2023) «Politica e democrazia nella riflessione di Aristotele sulla cittadinanza. Il contributo di Leo Strauss» in: Fornis, C., García Sánchez, M. & L. Sancho Rocher (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 471-504, Madrid.  

Stoneman, E. (2013) «The available means of preservation: Aristotelian rhetoric, ostracism, and political catharsis» Rhetoric Society Quarterly 43, 134-54.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) «The zeugesion telos and the ‘chorion ateles’ (Arist. Ath. 16.6): Census classes and the Solonian fiscal system» Gerión 43, 29-45. 

 

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

Abolafia, J. (2025) “‘No shame without divine necessity: Politics and impiety in Plato’s Laws and Euripides’ Hippolytus” History of Political Thought 46, 189-215. 

Gavray, M.-A. (2025) «Comment soigner les affections criminelles: les principes de la législation pénale en Lois XI» in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delcomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos. Le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon, 119-38, Leiden.

Koumakis, G. Ch. & E. Balkana-Koumaki (2003) “Enklēma kai timōria kata Platōna” Dodone 32/3, 115-27. 

Merry, D. (2024) «Xenophobia in utopia: On the metics in Plato’s Laws» in: Castelnérac, B. & L. Monteils-Laeng (eds) Foreign influences. The circulation of knowledge in antiquity, 117-38, Turnhout.

Schultz, A.-M. (2025) «Justice, accountability and its limits in Plato’s Republic I» in: Mamary, A. J. & M. Trexler Drees (eds) Politeia. New readings in the history of philosophy, 263-76, New York. 

Scrofani, Fr. (2020) «Royauté et loi: de Plato aux Traités sur la royauté» Ktèma 45, 71-90.

Wallach, J. R. (2023) “Thucydides, Plato, and stasis” History of Political Thought 44, 611-30. 

† Wersinger Taylor, G. (2024) «La politique de la grande famille dans les Lois de Platon» Études platoniciennes [En ligne], 19 URL : http://journals.openedition.org/etudesplatoniciennes/2960 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12lpp  

Yoon, J. (2024) “Ruling with knowledge vs ruling with laws: The role of law in Plato’s best city in the Statesman” History of Political Thought 45, 595-620. 

Zack, N. (2025) “Le pathos de l’impiété dans le livre X des Lois” in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delcomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos. Le traitement des affections dasn les Lois de Platon, 160-72, Leiden.

 

 

History  

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

 

Herodotus

Gygax, M. D. (2023) “Democracia-oligaquía-monarquía. Contextos, limites y paradojos de la terminología política griega en el debate constitucional de Herodoto” in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus interpretes en la tradición occidental, 21-43, Madrid. 

Jordan, B. (1970) “Herodotus 5.71.2 and the naukraroi of Athens” CSCA 3, 153-75.

 

Thucydides

Wallach, J. R. (2023) “Thucydides, Plato, and stasis” History of Political Thought 44, 611-30. 

 

Xenophon

Cammack, D. (2022) “Kratos and other forms of power in the two Constitutions of the Athenians” Polis 39, 466-97. 

Fornis, C. (2025) «Comentario histórico a la Lakedaimonion Politeia de Jenofonte» Talia dixit 20, 227-63.

Poddighe, E. (2024) “Una lectura sobre el Hiero de Jenofonte (2.8-16; 6.7-10): los ciudadanos y la guerra en el discurso del tirano” Araucaria 26/57, 245-67. 

 

 

Lexica

 

 

Other literary sources

Ferruci, S. (2023) «La rappresentazione della democrazia ateniese in Plutarco» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 240-66, Madrid. 

Pozzoni, I. (2018) “Suggestioni etico/giuridiche nei lirici greci arcaici” in: Pozzoni, I. (ed) Rassegna, storiografica decennale, 115-49, Villasanta.

 

Inscriptions – see also: 

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

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

Hansen, O. (1988) “On the origin of a Lokrian bronze plaque concerning the settlement of a new territory” StudClas 25, 89-90. 

Harris, E. M. (2025) “New restorations in a clause from a law in the city Eleusinion concerning the Mysteries” ZPE 234, 62-68.

Iversen, P. (2025) “New readings and supplements for SEG 34.664: A record of Alexander’s settlement at Philippoi” ZPE 234, 147-75. 

Liddel, P., Constantakopoulou, Chr. & Y. Kourayos (2025) “An inscribed decree from the Paros Museum and the Parian colonization of Pharos” JHS 145, 50-63.

Mandalaki, A. (2025) “A new interpretation of the term agretas in an archaic law from Dreros” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 5, 27-54. 

Matthaiou, Ang. P. (2025) “Peri tēs epigraphēs tēs Dophitidos kai palin” Grammateion 14, 59-66.

 

 

Manuals – introductory essays

Sina, A. (2016) “Eski Yunan yargi sistemi: Mö IV. yüzyilda Atina’da yargiçlar ve mahkemeler” (Ancient Greek judicial system: judges and courts of law in Athens in the 4th century B.C.) Türkiye Barolor Birligi Dergisi 123, 419-50. (in Turkish) 

Stanley, C. (1950) “The Greek conception of law and its later influence” The Canadian Bar Review 28, 367-89.

 

 

Methodology

 

 

Bibliographies

Gagliardi, L. (2025) “Un inedito di Mario Talamanca in tema di homologia kyria” Dike 28 https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/29965  

 

 

Fundamental principles

Legal concepts 

Cammack, D. (2022) “Kratos and other forms of power in the two Constitutions of the Athenians” Polis 39, 466-97.

Carugati, F. (2024) “The rule of law throught the ages” in: Sevel, M. (ed) Routledge handbook on the rule of law, 42-56, New York. 

Lévystone, D. X. (2023) “Note on the original meaning of Greek aitios” in: Ross, A. & D. Vàzquez (eds) Cause and explanation in ancient philosophy, 8-20, London.

Papakonstantinou, Z. (2025) “Greek legal pluralism. The case of sport and festivals” Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2025) “Common concepts in Athens and Rome? A comparative legal perspective on the homologia” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 151-80, Leiden. 

Stolfi, E. (2022) “Per una ricerca sulla certezza del diritto nell’esperienza greca. Tra speculazione filosofica e prassi retorica” Specula Iuris 2/2, 15-88.

 

Dispute settlement and litigation

 

Origins of law

Slynko, D. V. & L. I. Kalenichenko (2023) “The origin and development of procedural rules in ancient Greece” Bulletin of KhNUIA 2023/4, 36-43. (in Ukrainian) 

 

Writing and codification

 

Themis, Dike, Thesmos, Nomos, Psephisma

Skarbek-Kazanecki, J. (2025) «How much new is there in the old? Themis, dike and an evolutionary understanding of ancient Greek normativity» Collectanea Philologica 28, 13-26. 

 

Law and legislators

Esu, A. (2025) «Spartan constitutionalism: Institutions and the authority of the lawgiver in ancient Sparta» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 42-64, Edinburgh. 

 

Lycurgus

Gatto, M. (2025) Licurgo di Sparta nella letteratura greca e latina, Berlin. 

Stanimirović, V. & U. Divac (2025) “Forming the assembly as a legislative body in ancient Greece” Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 73, 123-44.

 

Draco 

 

Solon 

Beck, M. (2011) «Constitutions, contigency and the individual. Solon, Lycurgus and the early development of Greek political biography» in: Soares, D., Fialho, M. de Ceu, Alvarez Moran, M. C. & R. M. Iglesias Montiel (eds) Norma & Transgressão II, 15-38, Coimbra.  

Buis, E. J. (2025) “La ley sobre neutralidad en tiempos de stásis y su dimensión emocional: la institucionalización soloniana de pasiones cívicas» in: Fernández, Cl. N. & Gr. C. Zecchin de Fasano (eds) Pensar la Antigüedad en clave contemporánea. Enfoques interisciplinarios y nuevos paradigmas, 12-51, La Plata.

Descat, R. (1990) «De l’économie tributaire à l’économie civique: le rôle de Solon» in: Mélanges Lévêque, 5, 85-100. 

Fadinger, V. (1996) «Solons Eunomia-Lehre und die Gerechtigkeitsidee der altorientalischen Schöpfungsherrschaft» in: Gehrke, H.-J. & A. Möller (eds) Vergangenheit und Lebenswelt: Soziale Kommunikation, Traditionsbildung und historisches Bewußtsein, 179-218, Tübingen. 

Lane, M. (2025) “Of promulgation and purpose: Revisiting the Hart–Fuller debate with the case of the archaic Athenian lawgiver Solon” Current Legal Problems, https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuaf009  

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) «The zeugesion telos and the ‘chorion ateles’ (Arist. Ath. 16.6): Census classes and the Solonian fiscal system» Gerión 43, 29-45.

 

Interpretation of laws

 

Human and fundamental rights

 

Relation of Greek laws to other legal systems

García Domínguez, D. (2024) „Internal conflict, Greek and Roman” MedAnt 26, 79-91. 

Meier, Chr. (1996) “Der griechischen und der römische Bürger. Gemeinsamkeit und Unterschiede im Ensemble gesellschaftlicher Bedingungen” in: Schmidt, E. G. (ed) Griechenland und Rom. Vergleichende Untersuchungen zu Entwicklungstendenzen und –höhpunkten der antiken Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur, 41-66, Erlangen. (= Nippel, W. & St. Rebenich (eds) (2025) Christian Meier. Augewählte Schriften II. Zur griechischen und römischen Geschichte, 52-71, Stuttgart)

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2025) “Common concepts in Athens and Rome? A comparative legal perspective on the homologia” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 239-62, Leiden. 

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2025) “Homologia und nuncupatio – Das attische Homologie –Gesetz in seinem Kontext” ZRG 142, 29-140.

 

Conflict of laws

 

Justice and law

 

Natural law 

 

Legal terminology

Del Freo, M. (2024) “The Greek term ktoina between the second and first millennium BC” Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici n.s. 10, 77-94. 

 

Polis

Battistoni, F. (2024) “Le synkletoi di Sicilia: proposte di definizione e interpretazione” in: Ampolo, C., Giglio, R., Magnetto, A. & M. C. Parra (eds) Conflitto e cultura civica nella storia della Sicilia antica: tra stasis e homonoia, 49-59, Pisa. 

Dimopoulou, A. A. (2025) “Diversity and unity of public institutions and sanctions. The case of the cities of Lesbos (Archaic to Hellenistic times)” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 43-64, Leiden.

Eckert, A. (2025) “Formen der Teilhabe an der demokratischen Polis Athen” Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 76/5-6, 245-58. 

Economou, E. M. L. & N. C. Kyriazis (2025) “Auditing mechanisms to ensure effective public administration through justice: evidence from classical Athens” Statute Law Review 46/3, https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmaf027 .

Fornis, C. (2025) «Comentario histórico a la Lakedaimonion Politeia de Jenofonte» Talia dixit 20, 227-63. 

Ivantchik, A. I. (2025) “The polis and royal power in the Bosporus during the Spartokid era: lands, citizenship and taxes” VDI 85, 85-108.

Klosko, G. (2020) “Oaths and political obligation in ancient Greece” History of Political Thought 41, 1-15. 

Liddel, P. (2025) “Rules, practices, narratives: Managing decrees and decree-making in classical Athens” in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 163-88, Edinburgh.

Stanimirović, V. & U. Divac (2025) “Forming the assembly as a legislative body in ancient Greece” Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 73, 123-44. 

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) “The Solonian Council of 400 and the Anarchies in Post-Solonian Athens” Pnyx 4, FR1000. https://doi.org/10.55760/pnyx.2025.41138

 

Civic subdivisions

Fachard, S. (2019) “Common denominators? The emergence of territorial organization in Athens and Eretria” in: Palagia, O. & Ε. Sioumpara (eds) From Hippias to Kallias. Greek Art in Athens and beyond 527 to 449 BC, 172-81, Athens. 

Lambert, St. (2025) “The public enactments of the deme Eleusis: between mysteries and military” in: Beck, H. & S. Scharff (eds) Beyond mysteries: the local world of ancient Eleusis, 297-317, Leiden.

 

Archives

 

Constitutions

Alexandrescu, P. (1986) «Aristotel despre constitutia Histriei» StudClas 24, 63-70. 

Banfi, A. (2015) «Metabolai. I rivolgimenti costituzionali fra antico e moderno» Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica 45/1, 209-31.

Bianco, E. (2025) «La patrios politeia dopo Isocrates. Tra continuità e cambiamento» in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, 51-66, Coimbra. 

Gygax, M. D. (2023) “Democracia-oligaquía-monarquía. Contextos, limites y paradojos de la terminología política griega en el debate constitucional de Herodoto” in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus interpretes en la tradición occidental, 21-43, Madrid.

Inamura, K. (2019) “Scientific classification and essentialism in the Aristotelian typology of constitutions” History of Political Thought 40, 196-218. 

Lockwood, T. C. (2024) “Carthage: Aristotle’s best (non-Greek) constitution” in: Castelnérac, B. & L. Monteils-Laeng (eds) Foreign influences. The circulation of knowledge in antiquity, 181-208, Turnhout.

Mitchell, L. (2025) «Greek constitutional thinking and the Peloponnesian war» in: Gartland, S. & R. Osborne (eds) Reassessing the Peloponnesian war, 196-224, Cambridge. 

Sartori, Fr. (1968) «Costituzioni italiote, italiche, etrusche» StudClas 10, 29-50.

 

Basileia (Kingship)

Filocamo, A. (2025) “La tabella 25 dell’archivio di Locri e il ‘tormiento’ della scelta sul basileus” Aegyptus 105, 101-18. 

Kossarev, D. (2024) «The criticism of monarchy in Isocrates’ Cyprian orations» Hyperboreus 30/2, 199-217.

 

Oligarchia (Oligarchy)

 

Demokratia (Democracy) 

Casadesús Bordoy, Fr. (2023) «Sócrates y el fundamento de su crítica filosófica à la democracia» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 113-30, Madrid. 

Engen, D. T. (2011) «Democracy, knowledge, and the hidden economy of Athens» The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 8, 93-106.

Ferruci, S. (2023) «La rappresentazione della democrazia ateniese in Plutarco» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 240-66, Madrid. 

Fornis, C. & J. Jara (2023) «Democracia más allá de Atenas: La singularidad argiva» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 93-112, Madrid.

Kyriazis, N. K. & A. D. Karayiannis (2011) «Democracy, institutional changes and economic development: The case of ancient Athens» The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 8, 61-91. 

Labiano, M. & C. Morenilla (2023) «La democracia ateniense en clave de la comedia griega antigua» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 93-112, Madrid.

Meier, Chr. (2005) “Zum Aufkommen des Demokratie-Begriffs. Ein Nachlese” in: Schmitt, T., Schmitz, W. & A. Winterling (eds) Gegenwartige Antike – antike Gegenwarten (Kolloquium zum 60. Geburtstag von Rolf Rilinger), 49-83, München. (= Nippel, W. & St. Rebenich (eds) (2025) Christian Meier. Augewählte Schriften II. Zur griechischen und römischen Geschichte, 340-67, Stuttgart) 

Meier, Chr. (1968) “Drei Bemerkungen zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte des Begriffs Demokratie” in: Sieber, M. (ed) Discordia Concors. Festgabe für Edgar Bonjour, I, 3-29, Basel. (= Nippel, W. & St. Rebenich (eds) (2025) Christian Meier. Augewählte Schriften II. Zur griechischen und römischen Geschichte, 72-93, Stuttgart)

Paiaro, D. & M. Requena (2023) “(Des)igualdades atenienses. La democracia y los límites a la dominación de la élite” in: Campagno, M., Gallego, J., Garcia MacGaw, C. & R. Payne (eds) Desigualdades antiquas. Economia, cultura y sociedad en el Oriente Medio y el Mediterráneo, 281-304, Barcelona.  

Pajón Leyra, Ig. (2023) “Cinismo griego y democracia” in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 175-91, Madrid.

Poddighe, E. (2023) «Politica e democrazia nella riflessione di Aristotele sulla cittadinanza. Il contributo di Leo Strauss» in: Fornis, C., García Sánchez, M. & L. Sancho Rocher (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 471-504, Madrid. 

 

Tyrannis (Tyranny)

Harris, E. M. (2025) “The traditions about Cylon’s attempt at tyranny” in: Aneziri, Sophia, Giannakopoulos, N., Kokkinia, Christina, Paschidis, P. & Selene Psoma (eds) Eirēnarchēs. Essays on politics, institutions and society in the Greek and Roman world in honour of Kostas Buraselis, 183-201, Athens. 

Prost, Fr. (2024) “Le tyran et la politique” in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 143-66, Rennes.

 

Magistrates

Aka, A. M. (2024) “Euthynai et procès pour corruption et malversations: quelle est leur efficacite à Athènes à l’époque classique” ZAnt 74, 117-32. 

Fedoseev, N. F. (2016) “Once again on agoranomoi of Pantikapaion” Drevnosti Bospora 20, 485-92. (in Russian)

Fedoseev, N. F. (2013) “On the question about the existence of poleis magistracies at Bosporus” in: Bosporskiy Fenomen. Greki I varvary na Evraziyskom perekrestke. Materialy mezhdunaradnoynauchnoy konferentsii (Sankt-Peterburg, 19-22 noyabrya 2013 g.), 25-33, Saint Petersburg. (in Russian) 

Gagarin, M. (2024) “Le magistrat et la loi” in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 167-80, Rennes.

Hamon, P. (2015/1016) “Études d’épigraphie thasienne, IV. Les magistrats thasiens du IVe s. av. J.-C. et le royaume de Macédoine” BCH 139/140, 68-125. 

Jones, E. (2025) “Applying Ockam’s razor: The Athenian logistai in the fifth century” ZPE 234, 69-86.

Jordan, B. (1970) “Herodotus 5.71.2 and the naukraroi of Athens” CSCA 3, 153-75. 

Saprykin, S. (2020) “The agoranomy at Bosporus” Drevnosti Bospora 25, 320-38. (in Russian)

Saprykin, S. (2015) “Panticapaean agoranomoi” Drevnosti Bospora 19, 293-301. (in Russian) 

Wallinga, H. T. (2000) “The Athenian naukraroi” in: Sancisi Weerenburg, H. (ed) Peisistratos and the tyranny: a reappraisal of the evidence, 131-46, Amsterdam.

Weber, G. (2025) “Bürgeridentität auf dem Prüfstand: Die Fragen an die Amtsbewerber in der athenischen Demokratie” in: Aneziri, Sophia, Giannakopoulos, N., Kokkinia, Christina, Paschidis, P. & Selene Psoma (eds) Eirēnarchēs. Essays on politics, institutions and society in the Greek and Roman world in honour of Kostas Buraselis, 203-22, Athens. 

Yilmazcan, D. & A. Gözlü (2023) “Poliste bir kamu denetçisi figürü: Agoranomos” (Figure of an ombudsman in the police: agoranomos) Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences 32, 871-90.

Zaccarini, M. (2025) “Drift, conversion and informal rules: The Athenian office of strategos from a new institutionalist perspective” in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 231-50, Edinburgh. 

 

Nomothesia (Legislation)

Buis, E. J. (2025) “La ley sobre neutralidad en tiempos de stásis y su dimensión emocional: la institucionalización soloniana de pasiones cívicas» in: Fernández, Cl. N. & Gr. C. Zecchin de Fasano (eds) Pensar la Antigüedad en clave contemporánea. Enfoques interisciplinarios y nuevos paradigmas, 12-51, La Plata. 

Canevaro, M. (2025) «Nomothesia and financial administration: ‘Constitutionalisation’ and institutional development in fourth-century Athens» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 15-41, Edinburgh.

Esu, A. (2025) «Spartan constitutionalism: Institutions and the authority of the lawgiver in ancient Sparta» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 42-64, Edinburgh. 

Kovacs, M. (2025) «Gleichheit, Konkurrenz und das Grabluxusgesetz des Demetrios von Phaleron» Zeitschrift für archäologische Aufklärung 3, 129-53.

Miśkiewicz, R. (2025) “Gli anagrapheis tōn nomōn e la ‘riforma legislativa in evoluzione’ sullo sfondo della cultura giuridica ateniese alla fine del V secolo a.C.” Dike 28, https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/29739  

Stanimirović, V. & U. Divac (2025) “Forming the assembly as a legislative body in ancient Greece” Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 73, 123-44.

 

Stasis, exile, reconciliation

García Domínguez, D. (2024) „Internal conflict, Greek and Roman” MedAnt 26, 79-91. 

Mullan, J. M. (2025) “The double meaning of strife in Hesiod” in: Mamary, A. J. & M. Trexler Drees (eds) Politeia. New readings in the history of philosophy, 211-26, New York.

Porciani, L. (2024) “Verso Maktorion. Per una rilettura della stasis arcaica di Gela” in: Ampolo, C., Giglio, R., Magnetto, A. & M. C. Parra (eds) Conflitto e cultura civica nella storia della Sicilia antica: tra stasis e homonoia, 15-24, Pisa.  

de Vido, St. (2024) “Superare il conflitto nell’età di Timoleonte: terra e libertà” in: Ampolo, C., Giglio, R., Magnetto, A. & M. C. Parra (eds) Conflitto e cultura civica nella storia della Sicilia antica: tra stasis e homonoia, 37-48, Pisa.

Wallach, J. R. (2023) “Thucydides, Plato, and stasis” History of Political Thought 44, 611-30. 

 

Ostracism

Stoneman, E. (2013) «The available means of preservation: Aristotelian rhetoric, ostracism, and political catharsis» Rhetoric Society Quarterly 43, 134-54. 

Tardio, G. (2024) «Ostracism according to Plutarch. Reflections on an interpretation and the role of envy in Them. 22.5 and Arist. 7.2» Ploutarchos 21, 151-70.

 

Polis finances, taxation, coinage

Bresson, A. (2025) «Ancient Greek monetary laws and regulations» in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 83-110, Leiden. 

Canevaro, M. (2025) «Nomothesia and financial administration: ‘Constitutionalisation’ and institutional development in fourth-century Athens» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 15-41, Edinburgh.

Cataudella, M. R. (2021) Ritorno alla flat tax. Un itinerario di Atene antica fra VII e IV secolo?, Turnhout. 

Descat, R. (1990) «De l’économie tributaire à l’économie civique: le rôle de Solon» in: Mélanges Lévêque, 5, 85-100.

Jordan, B. (1970) “Herodotus 5.71.2 and the naukraroi of Athens” CSCA 3, 153-75. 

Kyriazis, N. K. & A. D. Karayiannis (2011) «Democracy, institutional changes and economic development: The case of ancient Athens» The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 8, 61-91.

De Martinis, L. (2025) «Le finanze ateniesi alla metà del IV secolo. Tra necessità della pace e aspirazioni egemoniche» in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, 67-92, Coimbra. 

Mossé, Cl. (1979) «Les symmories athéniennes» in: van Effenterre, H. (ed) Points de vue sur la fiscalité antique, 31-42, Paris.

Rohde, D. (2025) «The theorika in its social, fiscal, and discursive context: Fighting Philip or helping the needy?» in: Pritchard, D. M. & I. Worthington (eds) Waging war in fourth-century Athens: New appraisals, 50-65, London. 

Tridimas, G. (2020) «Modelling the quest for status in ancient Greece: paying for liturgies» Homo Economicus 7, 213-36.

Tridimas, G. (2015) «Rent seeking in the democracy of ancient Greece» in: Hillman, A. L. & R. D. Congleton (eds) The Elgar companion to the political economy of rent seeking, 444-69, Cheltenham.  

Tridimas, G. (2011) «A political economy perspective of direct democracy in ancient Athens» Constitutional Political Economy 22, 58-82.

Valdés Guía, M. (2025) «The zeugesion telos and the ‘chorion ateles’ (Arist. Ath. 16.6): Census classes and the Solonian fiscal system» Gerión 43, 29-45. 

Wallinga, H. T. (2000) “The Athenian naukraroi” in: Sancisi Weerenburg, H. (ed) Peisistratos and the tyranny: a reappraisal of the evidence, 131-46, Amsterdam.

 

 

Status

 

Age classes

Acerbi, S. (2025) «Para toutois de dokei tethēnai pote nomos (Strab. 10.5, 6): la misteriosa muerte de los viejos de Keos» in: Minguijon, A. M., Saiz Lopez, J. N. & K. M. Vilacoba Ramos (eds) La muerte en la aniguedad. Estudios desde la interdisciplinariedad, 41-56, Madrid. 

Bernard, N. (2024) “Jeunes et vieux” in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 441-54, Rennes.

Mandalaki, A. (2025) “A new interpretation of the term agretas in an archaic law from Dreros” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 5, 27-54. 

 

Citizenship

Bergadano, L. (2024) «Essere ‘cittadine’: per una definizione di politis nell’Atene classica» RDE 14, 3-32. 

Blok, J. (2025) “Philochoros, gifts of grain and the scrutiny of citizens” JHS 145, 22-43.

Blok, J. (2025) «Citizenship regimes in ancient Greece» in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 21-50, Stuttgart. 

Canevaro, M. (2025) «Honour(s) for citizens. Egalitarianism and social distinction in democratic Athens» in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 89-129, Stuttgart.

Duce Pastor, E. (2023) «¿Quién puede molestarnos en esta democracia? Revisando la ley de ciudadanía de Pericles del 451 a.C. desde una perspectiva de género» in: Fornis, C., Sancho Rocher, L. & M. García Sánchez (eds) La democracia griega y sus interpretes en la tradición occidental, 68-92, Madrid. 

Duplouy, A. (2025) “Multiple ways to citizenship and multifaceted archaic cities” in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 51-68, Stuttgart.

Faraguna, M. (2025) «Citizenship in the Greek polis: An institutionalist approach» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 111-31, Edinburgh. 

Gallego, J. (2025) “Aristóteles, entre la política y la biología: la dominación del ciudadano varón en la Grecia Antigua” Nova Tellus 43, 35-63.

Joyce, Chr. J. (2025) “Citizen nothoi? The cases of Phile (Isaeus 3) and two ‘Mantitheuses’ (Dem. 39 and [Dem.] 40)” Dike 28, https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/29738 

Lasagni, Ch. (2025) “The grant of citizenship in western Greece. A case study for Greek politeia between honorific rhetoric and practical realities” in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 245-68, Stuttgart.

Marchiandi, D. (2025) «Citizenship and technitai. Experiments of ‘selective immigration’ in the Greek world» in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 167-90, Stuttgart. 

Meier, Chr. (1996) “Der griechischen und der römische Bürger. Gemeinsamkeit und Unterschiede im Ensemble gesellschaftlicher Bedingungen” in: Schmidt, E. G. (ed) Griechenland und Rom. Vergleichende Untersuchungen zu Entwicklungstendenzen und –höhpunkten der antiken Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur, 41-66, Erlangen. (= Nippel, W. & St. Rebenich (eds) (2025) Christian Meier. Augewählte Schriften II. Zur griechischen und römischen Geschichte, 52-71, Stuttgart)

Müller, Chr. & E. Priol (2025) «How to be a citizen in a koinon? Practices of ‘common citizenship in the classical and hellenistic periods» in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 225-44, Stuttgart. 

Pepe, L. (2025) «Sparta e l’euergetismo. Le leggi di Licurgo e i criteri di selezione degli spartiati» Codex 6, 263-90.

Poddighe, E. (2023) «Politica e democrazia nella riflessione di Aristotele sulla cittadinanza. Il contributo di Leo Strauss» in: Fornis, C., García Sánchez, M. & L. Rodríguez Alcocer, M.ª del Mar (2024) «La ciudadanía espartana» in: Valdés Guía, M. & F. Notario Pacheco (eds) La Antigua Grecia hoy. De la ciudadanía y sus límites al «desarrollo sostenible», 47-67, Madrid. 

Sancho Rocher (eds) La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental, 471-504, Madrid. 

Schmitz, W. (2025) “Atimoi, epitimoi and metoikizomenoi. Solon’s law on naturalisations and ‘those immigrating to Athens to pursue a trade’” in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 131-48, Stuttgart. 

Seelentag, G. (2025) “Citizenship as an expression of ‘cartelisation’. The example of Crete from archaic to classical times” in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 69-88, Stuttgart.

Weber, G. (2025) “Bürgeridentität auf dem Prüfstand: Die Fragen an die Amtsbewerber in der athenischen Demokratie” in: Aneziri, Sophia, Giannakopoulos, N., Kokkinia, Christina, Paschidis, P. & Selene Psoma (eds) Eirēnarchēs. Essays on politics, institutions and society in the Greek and Roman world in honour of Kostas Buraselis, 203-22, Athens. 

 

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. 

Merry, D. (2024) «Xenophobia in utopia: On the metics in Plato’s Laws» in: Castelnérac, B. & L. Monteils-Laeng (eds) Foreign influences. The circulation of knowledge in antiquity, 117-38, Turnhout.

Morales, F. A. (2025) «The metics and the Athenian polis» in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, 199-212, Coimbra. 

Wijma, S. (2025) “Zur Partizipation von Metökinnen und Metöken an den poliweiten Kultfesten” Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 76/5-6, 277-90.

 

Xenoi

Battistin Sebastiani, B. (2025) “Redes de apoio e comunicadades de migrantes na historiografia greca” Phaos 25 DOI: 10.20396/phaos.v25i00.20359 https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/phaos/article/view/20359  

Horster, M. (2025) “Ideal exclusivity and pragmatic flexibility. Offices and liturgies for ‘outsiders’ in late Classical and Hellenistic cities” in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 191-224, Stuttgart.

 

Freedmen

 

Slaves 

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

Bäbler, B. (2025) «Sklavinnen und Sklaven in der athenischen Demokratie der klassischen Zeit» Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 76/5-6, 291-305.

Gonzales, A. (2025) «L’esclave marchandise et la question de la propriété» in: Curras Refojos, Br. X. & I. Sastre Prats (eds) Las caras del imperio: mecanismos de control y estrategias de resistencia (Actes del XLI coloquio internacional del GIREA), 329-52, Besançon. 

Ismard, P. (2024) “Libres et esclaves” in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 381-96, Rennes.

Plácido Suárez, D. (2025) “La definición de la libertad y de la esclavitud en el imperialismo ateniense” in: Curras Refojos, Br. X. & I. Sastre Prats (eds) Las caras del imperio: mecanismos de control y estrategias de resistencia (Actes del XLI coloquio internacional del GIREA), 247-67, Besançon. 

Prodanović, M. (2025) “Mass enslavements and their political and social dimensions in the Peloponnesian war” Historia 74, 388-427.

Vlassopoulos, K. (2025) «The identities of enslaved persons» in: Skinner, J., Manolopoulou, V. & Chr. Tsouparopoulou (eds) Identities in antiquity, 73-89, London. 

 

Women and law 

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

Bergadano, L. (2024) «Essere ‘cittadine’: per una definizione di politis nell’Atene classica» RDE 14, 3-32.

Duce Pastor, E. & M. Rodríguez Alcocer (2020) “Dentro e fuera: el estatus de las mujeres atenienses y espartanas en la Grecia Antigua” in: Balbas, M. C., Duce Pastor, E., González Gutíerrez, P., Rodríguez Alcocer, M. & D. Serrano Lozano (eds) Blame it on the gender. Identities and transgressions in antiquity, 53-66, Oxford. 

Franklin, K. (2025) “Suspended freedom: legislation and women’s activities in the antiquity” in: Foroni Consani, C., Volpato Dutra, D. & J. Thiago Klein (eds) Concepts and conceptions of freedom. Historical perspectives and contemporary developments, 19-37, Berlin.

Marcu-Bogan, M. (2009) “Les femmes et le commerce dans l’Athènes antique” StudClas 45, 43-62. 

Mirón Pérez, M. D. (2000) “El gobierno de la casa en Atenas clásica. Género y poder en el oikos” Studia Historia. Historia Antigua 18, 103-17.

Ost, Fr. (2025) Les femmes dans la cité et la tragédie grecques, Paris. 

Pabst, A. (2025) “Auf den Spuren der Bürgerin des klassischen Athen” Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 76/5-6, 259-76.

Rodríguez Alcocer, M.ª del Mar. (2024) «Mujeres y no ciudadanos en Esparta» in: Valdés Guía, M. & F. Notario Pacheco (eds) La Antigua Grecia hoy. De la ciudadanía y sus límites al «desarrollo sostenible», 159-71, Madrid. 

Sebillotte Cuchet, V. (2025) Les femmes d’Athènes. L’ Antiquité grecque était-elle misogyne?, Paris.

Siron, N. (2025) « Nicarétè, mère d’Euxithéos. Quand nommer une femme dans les discours judiciaires de l’Athènes classique?» Mélété [En ligne] 2025/1. URL: https://publications-prairial.fr/melete/index.php?id=95  

Valdés Guía, M. (2024) «Mujeres ciudadanas y no ciudadanas de Atenas» in: Valdés Guía, M. & F. Notario Pacheco (eds) La Antigua Grecia hoy. De la ciudadanía y sus límites al «desarrollo sostenible», 131-57, Madrid.

 

Associations 

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

Kierstead, J. (2025) “Non-citizens in Athenian associations” in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 132-61, Edinburgh.

 

 

Family and inheritance

Franklin, K. (2025) “Suspended freedom: legislation and women’s activities in the antiquity” in: Foroni Consani, C., Volpato Dutra, D. & J. Thiago Klein (eds) Concepts and conceptions of freedom. Historical perspectives and contemporary developments, 19-37, Berlin. 

Wilgaux, J. (2024) “Époux et épouses” in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 397-412, Rennes.

 

Household

Kücüker, S. D. & T. B. Güler (2025) “Klasik çağ Atina hukukunda oikosa ilişkin duzenlemeler” (Regulations concerning oikos in classical Athenian law) Tarih Incelemeleri Dergisi 40/2, 921-48. 

 

Kinship

 

Guardianship

 

Marriage

 

Dowry

 

Divorce

 

Illegitimacy

 

Adoption

Méndez Dosuna, J. V. (2005) “Aristón adoptó tres hijas” ZPE 151, 87-90. 

 

Wills

Delios, A. A. (2025) “The evolution of wills in ancient Athens” in: Hebib, M. & A. Svraka-Imamovic (eds) Meeting of legal cultures (Conference proceedings, XXVIII annual forum of young legal historians, Sarajevo, September 21-23, 2023), 15-26, Sarajevo. 

 

Succession ab intestato

 

Epikleros

 

 

Contractual and property relations

Beck, H. (2025) “Land and law in archaic Thebes” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 15-42, Leiden. 

Mackil, E. (2018) “Property security and its limits in classical Greece” in: Canevaro, M., Erskine, A., Gray, B. & J. Ober (eds) Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science, 315-43, Edinburgh.

 

Obligation 

 

Contract

Gagliardi, L. (2025) “Un inedito di Mario Talamanca in tema di homologia kyria” Dike 28, 1-81. 

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2025) “Common concepts in Athens and Rome? A comparative legal perspective on the homologia” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 239-62, Leiden.

Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2025) “Homologia und nuncupatio – Das attische Homologie –Gesetz in seinem Kontext” ZRG 142, 29-140. 

† Talamanca, M. (2025) “Homologia kyria in diritto attico” Dike 28, 59-81.

 

Enktesis

Méndez Dosuna, J. V. (2007) “En torno al significado de enktasthai, enktesis y enktema (Ps. D. 7.42 y otros pasajes)“ Estudios Clásicos 131, 29-44. 

 

Sale

Erdas, D. (2025) “Selling land and houses in the ancient Greek poleis. Some notes on procedures, liabilities, and parties involved” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 65-83, Leiden. 

 

Lease

Flament, Chr. (2025) “Les modalités de gestion des mines lauréotiques durant l’époque classique” DHA 51, 13-35. 

 

Mortgages and securities

Loginov, A. (2025) „What is the relationship between the meanings ‚pledge‘ and ‚sacrifice‘ in the semantics of the root represented in koion, koiatai, etc?“ Graeco-Latina Brunensia 30, 57-71. 

 

Servitudes

 

Loan

Filocamo, A. (2025) “La tabella 25 dell’archivio di Locri e il ‘tormiento’ della scelta sul basileus” Aegyptus 105, 101-18. 

Rohde, D. (2025) «Exceptions that prove the rule. The local conditionality of debt cancellations» in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 111-32, Leiden.

 

Endowments

Lippert, G. (1967) Über die Rechtsformen altgriechischer Stiftungen, diss. Nürnberg. 

Maffi, A. (2025) “La disciplina delle donazioni nel Codice di Gortina” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 8, 9-25.

von Reden, S. (2012) «Glanz der Stadt, Glanz der Bürger. Stiftungen in der Antike» Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 63/1-2, 21-36. 

 

Locatio

 

Other kinds of contracts

Flament, Chr. (2025) “Le nombre de concessions minières au Laurion et les revenus d’Athènes au IVe siècle a.C.” in: Iossif, P. P. & Y. Stoyas (eds) Fleur de coin: Studies offered to François de Callataÿ by his students and friends, 266-79, Athens. 

Flament, Chr. (2025) “Les modalités de gestion des mines lauréotiques durant l’époque classique” DHA 51, 13-35.

 

 

Trade and finance

Bresson, A. (2024) «Le marchand et le risque» in: Prost, Fr., Roubineau, J.-M. & D. Viviers (eds) Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C., 75-100, Rennes. 

Carusi, Chr. (2025) «Soci in affari: koinōniai e koinōnoi nell’Atene di età classica» Erga-Logoi 13, 25-68.

 

Commercial law

 

Maritime law

 

Banks

 

 

Procedure

Filonik, J. (2025) «Acquitted/convicted by a single vote? Aeschines 3.252 and vote counts in Athenian oratory» Mnemosyne 78, 781-94. 

Harris, E. M. (2025) «Notes on the ‘stele of the punishments’ from Epidaurus» Dike 28 https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/30028 .

Harris, E. M. (2024) «The dedication of phialai after trials at Athens by metics and citizens» RDE 14, 95-180. 

Könczöl, M. (2015) «Méltányossági Érvek a Rétoriká ban» (Fairness arguments in Rhetoric) Iustum Aequum Salutare 11, 111-24. (in Hungarian)

Street, E. (2025) «‘To listen to both sides equally’. Just judgment in the Athenian courts» History of Political Thought 46, 1-26. 

 

Arbitration

Sakellariadēs, S. Ch. (1939) «Hē diaitēsia en tōi archaiōi hellēnikōi dikaiōi» Archeion Idiōtikou Dikaiou 6, 497-512. 

 

Courts

Dreher, M. (2025) «Fremde Richter im vorhellenistischen Griechenland” in: Aneziri, Sophia, Giannakopoulos, N., Kokkinia, Christina, Paschidis, P. & Selene Psoma (eds) Eirēnarchēs. Essays on politics, institutions and society in the Greek and Roman world in honour of Kostas Buraselis, 251-68, Athens. 

 

Areopagos

 

Procedures (Dikai – Graphai)

 

Procedures (Extraordinary)

 

Antidosis

 

Antigraphē

 

Apagōgē

 

Apographē

 

Diadikasia

 

Diamarturia

 

Dokimasia

 

Eisangelia

 

Endeixis

 

Ephēgēsis

 

Paragraphē

 

Phasis

 

Probolē

 

Skēpsis

 

Famous trials

Dorion, L.-A. (2024) “¿Tenía Sócrates la intención de suicidarse? Una relectura de la defensa de Sócrates en la Apología de Jenofonte” Araucaria 26/57, 183-202. 

Gontijo Leite, Pr. (2025) “The profanation of the Mysteries in the Attic orators: between rhetorical use and historical evidence” in: Beck, H. & S. Scharff (eds) Beyond mysteries: the local world of ancient Eleusis, 371-90, Leiden.

Pechatnova, L. (2025) “King Agesilaus and the trial of Phoebidas” Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 29/1, 5-20. 

 

Personnel

Malka, O. (2025) “Witnesses, judges: A revolution untold” Law and History Review 43, 615-41. 

Stroszeck, J. (2022) “Das Pinakion des Lokrion aus des demos Alopeke. Ein Streufund aus dem Kerameikos” in: Nogeura Celdrán, J. M., Rodà de Llanza, I. & P. D. Conesa Navarro (eds) Oikoumene. Studi di archeologia classica in omaggio a Margherita Bonanno, 49-54, Murcia.

 

Proofs

 

Witnesses

Malka, O. (2025) “Witnesses, judges: A revolution untold” Law and History Review 43, 615-41. 

Šumenković, A. (2024) «Doctors on trials. The physician as a witness in Demosthenes’ oration Contra Cononem» Belgrade Philosophical Annual 37, 75-84.

 

Torture (Basanos)

 

Oaths

Evdokimov, P. (2024) «Attic drama of the last third of the 5th century B.C.: Euripides and Aristophanes on ritual, words and obligations» Vestnik literaturnogo Instituta imeni A. M. Gorshkogo 2-3, 73-94. (in Russian) 

 

Enforcement

Binder, M. (2025) «Τὰν ἀπλόον τιμὰν διπ(π)λεῖ καταστασεῖ. Sanzioni procedurali nel diritto gortinio” Dike 28. https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/30073  

Harris, E. M. (2025) «Notes on the ‘stele of the punishments’ from Epidaurus» Dike 28 https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/30028.

 

 

Crime and punishment

Carbon, J.-M. & E. M. Harris (2025) “Policing sanctuaries in ancient Greece” in: Barringer, J. M., Ekroth, U. & D. Scahill (eds) Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods, 35-51, Leiden. 

Eppinger, A. (2025) “‘Godless!’. Legitimising violence in fifth-century BCE Athens” in: Breuer, J. & J. Walter (eds) Violence in antiquity. Religious approaches to its legitimation and delegitimation, 37-60, Stuttgart.

Gavray, M.-A. (2025) «Comment soigner les affections criminelles: les principes de la législation pénale en Lois XI» in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delcomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos. Le traitement des affections dasn les Lois de Platon, 119-38, Leiden. 

Koumakis, G. Ch. & E. Balkana-Koumaki (2003) “Enklēma kai timōria kata Platōna” Dodone 32/3, 115-27.

Wohl, V. (2024) “Violencia legal y el limite de la justicia” in: Buis, E. J. & E. Esteban Magoja (eds) La fuerza de la ley: Derecho, política, y violencia en la Grecia, 165-71, Santiago. 

 

Homicide

Phillips, D. D. (2024) “Homicide, sanctuary, and expiation in Sparta” The Historical Review of Sparta 2024, 61-91. 

† Wersinger Taylor, G. (2024) «La politique de la grande famille dans les Lois de Platon» Études platoniciennes [En ligne], 19 URL : http://journals.openedition.org/etudesplatoniciennes/2960 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12lpp  

 

Hybris

Gontijo Leite, P. (2025) «Hybris in Demosthenes’ Against Conon» » in: Serafim, A. & R. Toczko (eds) The art of violence. Reapproaching invective in ancient Greek literature, 169-88, Kopenhagen. 

 

Sexual offences

 

Theft

Harris, E. M. (2025) «Notes on the ‘stele of the punishments’ from Epidaurus» Dike 28, https://doi.org/10.54103/1128-8221/30028  

 

Other offences 

Aka, A. M. (2024) “Euthynai et procès pour corruption et malversations: quelle est leur efficacite à Athènes à l’époque classique” ZAnt 74, 117-32. 

 

Penalties

Buraselis, K. (2017) «Zanes speak: Olympic fines in Greek intellectual and political context” Hyperboreus 23, 133-41. 

 

Atimia

Autino, P. (2025) “L’atimia del cittadino prostituto nell’Atene dell’età classica” Erga-Logoi 13, 69-92. 

Rocchi, L. (2025) “Denominative verbs from atimia in the Attic orators and beyond” CQ doi:10.1017/S0009838825100530 

 

Confiscation of property

 

Death penalty

 

Epobelia

 

Exile

 

Imprisonment

 

Parakatabole

 

 

Environment and law

 

 

Religion and law

Bulycheva, E. V. (2024) “Financing of sacrifices in Attica in the second half of the IV century BC according to lease agreements on sacred lands” Vestnik literaturnogo Instituta imeni A. M. Gorshkogo 2-3, 95-100. 

Carbon, J.-M. & E. M. Harris (2025) “Policing sanctuaries in ancient Greece” in: Barringer, J. M., Ekroth, U. & D. Scahill (eds) Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods, 35-51, Leiden.

Chabod, A. (2024) “Ni magistrat, ni prêtre? Les enonciateurs des lois entre normativité civique et pratiques rituelles en Grèce archaïque et classique” Kernos 37, 143-70. 

Chandezon, Chr. (2025) “Tegean regulation for the panegyris in Alea Athena’s sanctuary. An Arkadian Festwiese (c. 400-380 BCE)” in: Baringer, J. M., Ekroth, G. & D. Scahill (eds) Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods, 52-67, Leiden.

 

Asebeia (Impiety)

Abolafia, J. (2025) “‘No shame without divine necessity: Politics and impiety in Plato’s Laws and Euripides’ Hippolytus” History of Political Thought 46, 189-215. 

Vergara Recreo, S. (2025) «Rumor, invectiva e irreligiosidad: el asesinato de Nicodemo en la oratoria (anti)demostenica» Euphrosyne 52, 47-61.

Vergara Recreo, S. (2019) «Ateismo, retórica y política: el léxico irreligioso en Contra Andócides per impiedad de Lisias» Salduie 18-19, 359-62. 

Zack, N. (2025) “Le pathos de l’impiété dans le livre X des Lois” in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delcomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos. Le traitement des affections dasn les Lois de Platon, 160-72, Leiden.

 

Asylia (Inviolability)

 

Defixiones (Curses)

Belousov, A., Dana, M. & N. Nikolaev (2016) „Deux nouvelles defixionum tabellae du territoire d’Olbia du Pont” ZPE 197, 167-77. 

Jordan, D. (2008) «An Athenian curse tablet invoking Palaimon» in: Matthaiou, A. P. & I. Polinskaya (eds) Mikros hieromnēmōn. Meletes eis mnēmēn Michael H. Jameson, 133-44, Athens.

 

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

Chandezon, Ch. (2025) “Tegean regulations for the panegyris in Alea Athena’s sanctuary. An Arkadian Festwiese (c. 400-380 BCE)” in: Barringer, J. M., Ekroth, U. & D. Scahill (eds) Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods, 52-67, Leiden. 

Gawlinski, L. (2025) “Personal, local, global. Greek dress in ritual norms” in: Beck, H. & K. Harter-Uibopuu (eds) Ancient Greek law. Vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy, 181-202, Leiden.

Nieto Izquierdo, E. (2015) “La loi sacrée SEG 11, 314: une nouvelle lecture” ZPE 194, 101-7. 

Pisano, C. (2024) “The polis-religion in the mirror of exousia: sources of authority in Greek ritual norms” Kernos 37, 111-24.

 

 

Inter-poleis relations

Barbato, M. (2025) “Deliberative justice? Pursuing self-interest and helping the wronged in Athenian international relations” in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 189-207, Edinburgh. 

Cowan, E. (2024) «The individual and international law in antiquity» in: Peters, A. & T. Sparks (eds) The individual in international law, 31-46, Oxford.

Lo Cascio, E. (1973-74) “Le trattative tra Gelone e i confederati e la data della battaglia di Imera” Helikon 13-14, 210-55. 

Pedazzini, H. (2025) “Da pace privata a pace comune: L’origine della koine eirene secondo un’orazione di Andocide” in: Savo, M. B., Ottone, G. & B. Battistin Sebastiani (eds) Changing the Greek world. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro, 29-50, Coimbra.

Valdés Guía, M. (2024) «Democracia e imperio ateniense: el papel de los tribunales» in: Valdés Guía, M. & F. Notario Pacheco (eds) La Antigua Grecia hoy. De la ciudadanía y sus límites al «desarrollo sostenible», 69-81, Madrid. 

 

Diplomacy

 

International arbitration

 

Leagues - Federations

Fernández Prieto, A. (2025) “La oltra cara del imperio: procediementos jurídicos e instrumentalización del discurso en la Asamblea y los tribunals populares atenienses como expresión de la violencia (y del consenso) entre los aristoi y el demos” in: Curras Refojos, Br. X. & I. Sastre Prats (eds) Las caras del imperio: mecanismos de control y estrategias de resistencia (Actes del XLI coloquio internacional del GIREA), 309-28, Besançon. 

Müller, Chr. (2025) «New institutionalism and federal structures in ancient Greece: The case of the Boiotian ‘Heptatelic’ system revisited» in: Barbato, M., Canevaro, M. & A. Esu (eds) Rediscovering Greek institutions. New institutional approaches to ancient Greek history, 251-72, Edinburgh.

Müller, Chr. & E. Priol (2025) «How to be a citizen in a koinon? Practices of ‘common citizenship in the classical and hellenistic periods» in: Cecchet, L. & Ch. Lasagni (eds) Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined. Multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world, 225-44, Stuttgart. 

Pascual Valderrama, I. M. (2025) La primera confederacion Aquea: distritos, federalismo y polis (ss. VIII a III a.C.), Madrid.

 

Metropoleis and colonies

Bernstein, Fr. (2020) “Apoike und Metropolis. Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen ihrer Beziehungen” Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 71/3-4, 153-74. 

Bresson, A. (2025) “Cleruchic land: Athens, Macedon and the Hellenistic kingdoms” VDI 85, 63-68.

Bresson, A. (2025) “Salamis: An archaeology of the Athenian cleruchic system” VDI 85, 69-84. 

Gallego, J. (2023) “Las structuras de un imperio: Atenas y sus ciudades dependientes” in: de Carvalho, M. M., Moreno Leoni, A. & N. Frazão Jose (eds) Império, imperadores e redes de sociabilidade na antiguadade, 63-90, Curitibo.

Gallego, J. (2023) “Igualaciones democráticas, disparidades imperials. Atenas y sus colonias egeas durante el siglo V a.C.” in: Campagno, M., Gallego, J.. Garcia MacGaw, C. & R. Payne (eds) Desigualdades antiquas. Economia, cultura y sociedad en el Oriente Medio y el Mediterráneo, 281-304, Barcelona. 

Liddel, P., Constantakopoulou, Chr. & Y. Kourayos (2025) “An inscribed decree from the Paros Museum and the Parian colonization of Pharos” JHS 145, 50-63.

 

Proxenia – see also 

 

Treaties – Symbola

Cross, N. D. (2025) «The preambles to archaic Greek interstate treaties at Olympia: a study in the diffusion of diplomatic language» in: Culbertson, L. & S. Longfield Karr (eds) Framing devices and global legal traditions. From the ancient world to the modern nation state, 29-45, London. 

Goracci, Cl. (2023) «Il trattato tra Lacedemoni ed Etoli (Osborne-Rhodes, GHI 128): una nuova proposta di integrazione» Historiká 13, 131-54.