NOMOI. Bibliography on ancient Greek law(s)
Additions January - June 2026Sources
Orators
Allard, J.-N. (2026) “The spaces of insult in the corpus of Attic orators” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 183-95, Abingdon.
Edwards, M. (2012) «Oratoria y performance en la Atenas clásica» Acta Poética 33, 87-115.
de Graaff, Fl. (2025) “Muerots griegos, seres sintientes. El uso de la cólera de los muertos y del miedo de los jueces como un instrumento juridico en Atenas clásica» Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna 59/2, 79-99.
Iacoviello, A. (2026) The legacy of the orators in the early Hellenistic Athens. Rhetoric, democracy, and the politics of memory, Oxford.
Sato, N. (2026) “Character portrayal of corona: people around the Athenian law court” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaf039
Aeschines
Kostopoulos, K. (2026) “Memory through space and time in the speeches of Aeschines” in: Proietti, G. & J. Mcinerney (eds) Memory, space, and mindscapes in ancient Greece,143-67, Leiden.
Andocides
Matthaiou, A. P. (2026) To psephisma tou Demophantou, Andokidou, Peri ton mysterion 96-98, Athenai.
Antiphon
Pappa, A. (2025) “Homopatric half-brothers in litigation: The rhetoric of fraternal bonds in Antiphon 1 and Demosthenes 39” Ariadne 31, 95-114.
Vatri, A. (2026) “Beyond the sophisms: characterization and proof in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaf035
Deinarchus
Demosthenes/Apollodorus
Dainotto, R. (2026) “Notions of democracy in the context of historical upheavals and social crises: Demosthenes’ rhetoric Against Leptines” in: Tamiolaki, M. & M. Zimmermann (eds) The concept of crisis in antiquity. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, 97-124, Berlin.
Kremmydas, Chr. (2026) “Narrative and characterization in the paragraphe speeches of the Demosthenic corpus” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaf034
Miśkiewicz, R. (2025) “Diocles’ law (Dem. 24.42) and the problem of the validity of laws in Athens in the late fifth century BCE” JJP 55, 179-236.
O’Connel, P. (2026) “Domestic space and Aphobus’ guilt in Demosthenes 27, The First Speech Against Aphobus” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 251-72, Abingdon.
Pappa, A. (2025) “Homopatric half-brothers in litigation: The rhetoric of fraternal bonds in Antiphon 1 and Demosthenes 39” Ariadne 31, 95-114.
Pucci, L. (2023) «Oreste e il Delfinio: per una rilettura di Dem. 23.74» Vichiana 60, 89-104.
Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2026) «Reisegeld, Lösegeld, Kredit. Zu den Finanztransaktionen in Demosthenes 53 (gegen Nikostratos)” in: Symposion 2024, 163-228. (with a reply by M. Faraguna, 217-28).
Siron, N. (2026) “Identification of citizen women in the Attic orators: a reconsideration from Demosthenes 27-29 and 44” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 15-35, Abingdon.
Hypereides
Horváth, L. (2023) “Harminchárom eltérő vagy új olvasat. Hypereidés ‘Athénogenés elleni beszédében” Antike Tanulmányok 67/1, 55-70.
van Hove, R. (2019) “A dream on trial: The content of oracular interpretations and authorities in Hyperides’ In Defence of Euxenippus” Mnemosyne 72, 405-36.
Karabelas, D. (2026) “Ho kata Athenogenous logos tou Hypereidē kai hē metavivasē tōn chreōn tēs emporikēs epicheirēsēs” in: Emporio kai dikaio. Dōrēma kathēgētē Euangelou Perrakē, 486-500, Athena.
Orth, Chr. (2025) «Ein Vorschlag zu Hypereides, Gegen Diondas 28 (174r, 21-23)» ZPE 235, 26.
Isaeus
Glazebrook, A. (2026) “Women and place in the speeches of Isaios” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 36-55, Abingdon.
Isocrates
Bearzot, C. & P. A. Tuci (2025) «Forme alternative di partecipazione politica in Isocrate» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 313-35.
Gotteland, S. (2014) «Bia et hybris: quelques remarques sur le vocabulaire de la violence politique chez Isocrate» Ktèma 39, 235-51.
Lycurgus
Lysias
Bearzot, C. (2025) “La chronologie de la vie de Lysias et les raisons de l’exil de son père Képhalos» Ktèma 50, 193-200.
Larran, Fr. (2014) “Théomnestos au tribunal ou l’injure comme arme du citoyen» Mondes Anciens 5,
Epic
Homer
Harst, J. (2015) “‘Homerisches Recht’. Eid, Ehe, und Verbinlichkeit im griechischen Epos” in: Hiebaum, Chr., Knaller, S. & D. Pichler (eds) Recht undLiteratur im Zwischenraum. Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge, 225-57, Bielefeld.
Hesiod
Tragedy
Fiamingo, L. (2025) “I riferimenti alla "vendetta" nei casi di anomia e paranomia: analisi lessicale e prospettive giuridiche nella tragedia greca” Rhesis. Special Issue: "Dall’Anomia alla Norma", 31-54.
Visvardi, E. (2025) ‘Tainted testimonies: torture, abjection, and the politics of culpability on the tragic stage. The case of Euripides’ Hecuba” in: Fernández, C. N. & G. C. Zecchin (eds) Pensar la Antigüedad en clave contemporanea. Enfoques interdisciplinarias y nuevos paradigmas, 52-72, La Plata.
Woram, K. (2026) “Treason and atimia in fifth-century Athens: the evidence from tragedy” Greece & Rome 73, 123-48.
Aeschylus
Antypas, A. (2023) „Zētēmata asylias kai politikou nomou stis Hiketides tou Aischylou“ in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 157-76, Athens.
Dougherty, C. (2023) “Questions of the foreigner: metoikia and democracy in Aeschylus’ Supplians” ClAnt 42, 49-86.
Partheni-Antonakaki, An. (2023) “Aischylou Prometheus Desmōtes kai to phainomeno tēs exousias stēn archaioteta» in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 129-56, Athens.
Euripides
Fiamingo, L. (2023) «Fra mito e diritto: forme e funzioni della vendetta nell’ ‘Ecuba’ e negli ‘Eraclidi’ di Euripidi» Tycho 9, 21-43.
Hilton, I. (2026) “Loyalty, treachery, and the polis: the rhetoric of justice in the Phoenissae of Euripides” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaf014
Sophocles
Brindisi, G. (2025) “Edipo Rey entre gobierno, juridicción y veridicción» in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 189-224, Buenos Aires.
Paraskevopoulos, N. (2023) “Ho Oidipodas, hē enochē tou kai hē dēmokratia” in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 177-94, Athens.
Wallace, R. (2023) “Ho Sophoklēs gia tous dēmokratikous nomous kai tous dēmokratikous tyrannous tēs Athēnas” in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 195-212, Athens.
Comedy
Papaïoannou, Sophia (2025) “Athenian law as source of inspiration: Apollodorus and Terence’s Phormio” in: Mastellari, Virginia (ed) Greek New Comedy beyond Menander, 323-43, Berlin.
Aristophanes
Agostini, C. de S. (2024) “Censorship and freedom of speech in two scenes of Aristophanes’ Acharnians” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_28
Buis, E. J. (2022) “Comic pathos and legal emotional community: Destabilizing judicial anger and pity in Aristophanes” in: Räuchle, V., Page, Sv. & V. Goldbeck (eds) Pathos und Polis. Einsatz und Wirkung von Emotionen im klassischen Griechenland, 189-210, Tübingen.
Karathanasis, K. (2026) “Aristophanes and the phratry of triobolos: Revisiting the social composition of Athens’ judiciary” CPh 121, 16-39.
Papachrysostomou, A. (2020) “Ho thranitēs leōs, ho mistharchidēs Lamachos kai hē dēmokratia stous Acharnēs tou Aristophanē” in: Markantonatos, A. & L. Platypodēs (eds) Aristophanous Acharnēs: To ergo, o topos, oi anthrōpoi, 102-13, Athens.
Saphlekou, A. (2023) “Aristophanous Nephelai. Sophistes, hē technē tēs peithous kai hē aponomē tes dikaiosynēs stēn archaia Athēna” in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 41-58, Athens.
Youni, M. (2023) «Synōmotes kai tyrannoi stēn kōmikē skēnē: ho Aristophanēs kai to politiko enklēma» in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 59-88, Athens.
Menander
Philosophy
Brisson, L. (2022) «La critique de mariage et de la famille dans les Républiques de Platon, Diogène le cynique et Zénon de Citium» in: Husson, S. & J. Lemaire (eds) Les trois Républiques: Platon, Diogène de Sinope et Zénon de Citium, 119-32, Paris.
Esteban Magoja, E. (2025) «Nómos, phýsis y sus relaciones: una lectura en clave jurídica de Antifonte (fr. 44 de Sobre la verdad)» Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna 59/2, 58-78.
Karassis, M. D. (2025) Philosophia tou dikaiou. Ta ontologika themelia tou dikaiou, I. He idea tēs dikaiosynēs stēn archaia hellēnikē skepsē, Athens.
Lisi, F. L. (2025) “Reciprocity, money and justice in classical political thought” in: Fermani, A., Irrera, E. & F. Piangerelli (eds) Oikos nomos. Politics and economics in ancient thought, 131-46, Pistoia.
Aristotle – see also International Aristotle Bibliography https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/browse/international-aristotle-bibliography
Aubenque, P. (2011) «Aristote et la conception délibérative de la démocratie» in: Aubenque, P. (ed) Problèmes Aristoteliciens, II: Philosophie pratique, 195-200, Paris.
Bertelli, L. (2018) «Il cittadino in Aristotele: criteri di inclusione/esclusione» in: de Luise, F. (ed) Cittadinanza. Inclusi ed esclusi tra gli antichi e i moderni, 125-64, Trento.
Campeggiani, P. (2025) “Aristotle on subjective rights” in: Ando, Cl., Canevaro, M. & B. Straumann (eds) The Cambridge History of Rights 1. The Ancient World, 131-47, Cambridge.
Delia, Ch. (1988) “Aristotle on the state and the citizen” in: Zarcone, Th. (ed) Individu et société. L’influence d’Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen (Actes du colloque d’Istanbul, Palais de France, 5-9 janvier 1986), 39-55, Istanbul.
Ferraioli, F. (2012) «Aristotele su Diagora» in: Polito, M. & C. Talamo (eds) Istituzioni e costituzioni in Aristotele tra storiografia e pensiero politico (Atti dell’ incontro internazionale di studi, Frisciano 30 settembre – 1 ottobre 2010), 321-30, Tivoli (Roma).
Irrera, E. (2025) “The language of oikonomia. Reciprocity and exchange in Aristotle’s theory of political justice” in: Fermani, A., Irrera, E. & F. Piangerelli (eds) Oikos nomos. Politics and economics in ancient thought, 147-68, Pistoia.
Irwin, T. H. (2026) “Aristotle and the law: forethought, voluntary action, and action on election” Polis 43, 164-88.
Koumakis, G. Ch. (2013-2014) “Horismos tou mē nomimou kata ton Aristotelē» Parnassos 55, 161-78.
Krikona, E. (2024) “Aristotle’s mixed constitution theory” New Classicists 10, 59-79.
Lee, R. C. (2026) “Aristotle on the rule of law and particularism: Politics 3.15-16” Polis 43, 189-209.
Nascimento, D. (2024) “From rights to revolutions: on the rise of oligarchies and democracies in Aristotle’s political thought” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_33
Oliveira, R. R. (2019) “The Aristotelian theory of regimes and the problem of kingship in Politics III” Trans/Form/Ação 42, 31-58.
Poddighe, E. (2026) “Aristotle on Citizenship as Sharing (koinōnein) in the Political Community: A Matter of Degree?” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 21-55, Milan.
Poddighe, E. (2025) “Sulla definizione di cittadino nel libro III della Politica: il metodo di Aristotele tra theoria, empeiria e storia delle praxeis” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 45-94.
Preus, A. (2009) «Citizenship and participation in government in ancient Greek political thought” Skepsis 16, 150-63.
Rambourg, C. (2019) «Interrogatoire judiciaire et interrogation dialectique en partant d’Aristote, Rhétorique III 18» in: Favreau-Linder, A.-M. & J.-P. De Giorgio (eds) La diatribe antique: enquête sur les formes dialogiques du discours philosophique, 151-65, Limoges.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2022) “Aristóteles y la posibilidad de una mése politeía» Araucaria 24/49, 351-72.
Tsouni, G. (2026) “Crisis and constitutional change in Aristotle and Cicero” in: Tamiolaki, M. & M. Zimmermann (eds) The concept of crisis in antiquity. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, 125-44, Berlin.
Wolf, E. (2024) “On ἐλευθερία, τὸ ζῆν ὡς βούλεταί τις, and virtue in the Aristotelian theory of demokratia” Revista Archai 34 https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_34
Plato - see also International Plato Society www.platosociety.org
Abarca, A. (2025) “Aporía democrática: un comentario sobre la stásis en La República de Platón» in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 277-306, Buenos Aires.
Aktas, Z. (2023) “The justification of punishment in Plato” Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 35, 261-79. (in Turkish)
Bartels, M. L. (2025) “Fear, law and rationality: Plato’s legislative innovation of the preamble” in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delacomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon, 88-118, Leiden.
Bobonich, Chr. (2026) «Plato on the law, political rule, and philosophical knowledge” Polis 43, 77-100.
Calenda, G. (2022) La condanna di Socrate. Audiatur et altera pars, Baden-Baden.
Coppola, A. (2023) «Democrazia e ‘poikilia’: Polibio e Platone (con Aristotele)” IncidAntico 21, 25-41.
Frossinakis, Chr. (2025) “Plato’s Drakontian echoes. Phaedo (113d-114c) and Athenian homicide law” Hermes 153, 385-93.
Harris, E. M. (2025) “Plato and the market in the Republic” in: Fermani, A., Irrera, E. & F. Piangerelli (eds) Oikos nomos. Politics and economics in ancient thought, 19-62, Pistoia.
Hatzistavrou, A. (2026) “Law and political authoritarianism in Plato’s Statesman” Polis 43, 120-41.
Hoopes, J. (1970) “Euthyphro’s case” CB 47, 1-6.
Jakab, E. (2011) “Freiheit und Sicherheit in Platons Nomoi” in: Karsai, K., Nagy, F. & Z. Szomora (eds) Freiheit – Sicherheit – (Straf)Recht. Beiträge eines Humboldt-Kollegs, 127-40, Osnabrück.
Jouët-Pastré, E. (2012) “Quelques réflexions sur le châtiment dans les dialogues platoniciens: le philosophe peut-il justifier le châtiment physique?» Pallas 88, 61-69.
Kamtekar, R. (2026) “The problem of legislation in Plato’s Laws, book III” Polis 43, 101-19.
Keoseyan, B. (2026) “Entrenchment of the laws in Kallipolis?” Ancient Philosophy 46, 65-88.
Landaeta, P. (2025) «La clinica filosófica de Platón contra la stásis» in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 307-28, Buenos Aires.
Leunissen, M. (2026) “The correctness of laws and the role of natural history in Plato’s Republic” Polis 43, 33-52.
Lévy, E. (2014) “Bia chez Platon” Ktèma 39, 253-65.
Liebersohn, Y. Z. (2023) “Dikaios and cognates in Plato’s Crito” SCI 42, 91-110.
Londoño Sanz, D. (2023) «La regulación de los fármacos en las Leyes de Platón» Areté 35, 120-57.
Masone, L. (2023) “Due questioni filologiche nel libro VI delle ‘Leggi’: ‘nomophylakes’ et ‘agronomoi’: Platone alle prese con i numeri dei magistrate” Appunti Romani di Filologia 25, 23-32.
McKeen, C. (2025) “Law and political expertise in Plato’s Statesman” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_S3
Peluso, L. (2025) Contro Atene. La democrazia nelle Leggi di Platone, Baden-Baden.
Peluso, L. (2023) “I limiti alla democrazia nelle Leggi di Platone. La definizione del consiglio tra elezione e sorteggio” Filosofia Politica 37, 201-16.
Reid, J. (2025) “The analysis of constitutions in Plato’s Statesman” Revista Archai, 34 https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_S2
Sauve Meyer, S. (2026) “Identifying the preludes in Plato’s Laws” Polis 43, 142-63.
Slabon, T. (2026) “Protagorean positivism” Polis 43, 7-32.
Sparling, R. (2026) “Patricide and Plato’s deontic option” Polis 43, 53-76.
Zaks, N. (2025) «Le pathos de l’impiété dans le livre X des Lois» in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delacomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon, 160-72, Leiden.
History
see also Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum http://www.dfhg-project.org/
Herodotus
Bär, S. (2026) “The silence of the stones. On the lapidation of Lycides and his family at Hdt. 9.5” Mnemosyne 79, 45-69.
Barrionuevo, S. J. (2024) «Nomos-physis en el diálogo entre Jerjes y Demarato (Hdt. 7.101-104)» Nova Tellus 42, 25-45.
Thucydides
Caïre, E. (2009) «Variation constitutionnelle chez Thucydide (3, 62, 3)» in: Balansard, A., Dorival, G. & M. Loubet (eds) Les fondements de la tradition classique. Hommage à Didier Pralon, 103-16, Aix-en-Provence.
Donoso Johnson, P. (2025) “Tucídides stasiōtēs” in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 87-108, Buenos Aires.
Lévy, Ed. (2014) «Le vocabulaire de la violence chez Thucydide» Ktèma 39, 213-33.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2011) «Arché y democracia a la luz de Tucídides» in: Cortés Copete, J. M., Muñiz Grijalvo, E. & R. Cordillo Hervás (eds) Grecia ente los imperios (V reunion de historiadores del mundo griego), 167-78, Sevilla.
Stefanovski, M. & K. Cavoski (2023) “Polis, loimos, stasis. Thucydides about disintegration of the political system” Conatus 8/2, 629-56.
Xenophon
Calenda, G. (2022) La condanna di Socrate. Audiatur et altera pars, Baden-Baden.
Günther, Sv. (2025) “Framing the debate: Xenophon’s Poroi and the Athenian tax-system” Journal of Greco-Roman Studies 63/3, 67-87.
Porceddu, M. L. (2023) L’ Athenaion Politeia dello Pseudo-Senofonte e il suo tempo: contesto, lessico e ideologia, Göttingen.
Lexica
Other literary sources
Inscriptions – see also:
Texts: https://epigraphy.packhum.org/
Texts and literature: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum
Arnaoutoglou, I. (2026) “A shred of reconciliation in early classical Eleia” in: Symposion 2024, 53-78. (with a reply by N. Papazarkadas, 71-78)
Cappelletti, L. (2020) “Sull’amphipolos in IG xiv 574 da Centuripe” SCO 66, 133-42.
Comparetti, D. (1914) «La iscrizione arcaica di Mantinea» ASAA 1, 1-17.
Comparetti, D. (1914) “Laminetta argentea iscritta di Aidone (Sicilia)» ASAA 1, 113-8.
Dmitriev, S. (2025) “The Aristoteles decree and Athens’ imperialist policies in the fourth century” CQ 75, 165-78.
Guarducci, M. (1941-1943) “Un decreto di Argo ritrovato a Pallantion” ASAA 3-4, 141-54.
Manuals – introductory essays
Methodology
Batson, A. (2026) “The Renaissance Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Law, 1546-1650” The Historical Journal doi:10.1017/S0018246X26101551
Bibliographies
Fundamental principles
Legal concepts
Abat i Ninet, A. (2026) “Power and legitimation: ideas of sovereignty in classic Athens” in: Diamntides, M., Rosenfeld, M. & G. Martinico (eds) Research Handbook on the law and politics of sovereignty, 11-28, Northampton, MA.
Agostini, C. de S. (2024) “Censorship and freedom of speech in two scenes of Aristophanes’ Acharnians” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_28
Banfi, A. (2025) “A proposito di certezza del diritto in età greca ed ellenistica” in: Luccheti, G., Marotta, V., Papa, G. & A Cirillo (eds) Hestiasis. Scritti per Elio Dovere, 21-36, Bari.
Barta, H. (2024) Von téchne zu epistéme und phrónesis. Zum Entstehen von Jurisprudenz im antiken Griechenland (im Rahmen des Entstehens von Wissenschaft), Innsbruck.
Baur, M. (2011) “The language of rights: towards an Aristotelian-Thomistic analysis” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84, 89-98.
Campeggiani, P. (2025) “Aristotle on subjective rights” in: Ando, Cl., Canevaro, M. & B. Straumann (eds) The Cambridge History of Rights 1. The Ancient World, 131-47, Cambridge.
Canevaro, M. (2026) “Class and Greek law: For the elite, by the elite?” in: Symposion 2024, 117-62. (with a reply by St. Ferrucci, 153-62)
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, 92-130, Cambridge.
Dimopoulou, A. (2026) “Hē synbatikē pistis stēn archaioellēnikē technē: hē skēnē tēs dexiōseōs” in: Emporio kai dikaio. Dōrēma kathēgētē Euangelou Perrakē, 318-27, Athena.
Erdas, D. (2026) «Protezioni legali sulla terra nelle clausole di accesso alla cittadinanza: osservazioni preliminari» in: de Vido, St., Esposito, A., Pollini, A. & Cl. Weber-Pallez (eds) Territoires multiples. Espaces, définitions, experiences dans le monde grec VIIe – Ier siècle a.C., 55-68, Bordeaux.
Irwin, T. H. (2026) “Aristotle and the law: forethought, voluntary action, and action on election” Polis 43, 164-88.
Jakab, E. (2011) “Freiheit und Sicherheit in Platons Nomoi” in: Karsai, K., Nagy, F. & Z. Szomora (eds) Freiheit – Sicherheit – (Straf)Recht. Beiträge eines Humboldt-Kollegs, 127-40, Osnabrück.
Jufresa, M. (2017) «Parrhesía: de derecho político a virtud privada» in: de la Villa Polo, J., Falque Rey, M., González Castro, J. F. & J. Muñoz Jiménez (eds) Conventus classicorum. Temas y formas del mundo clásico, II, 55-76, Madrid.
Lee, R. C. (2026) “Aristotle on the rule of law and particularism: Politics 3.15-16” Polis 43, 189-209.
Malkin, I. (2026) “Sharing in the polis: Greek terms for equality and fairness” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 79-96, Milan.
Papakonstantinou, K. K. (2023) “He eleutheria tou logou sto archaio drama kai tēn politikē” in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 89-114, Athens.
Rubinstein, L. (2026) “Aegean networks: dissemination of legal culture from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period” in: Symposion 2024, 19-52. (with a reply by A. Dimopoulou, 45-52).
Slabon, T. (2026) “Protagorean positivism” Polis 43, 7-32.
Stemmer, P. (2023) «‘Exeinai’ und ‘exousia’: ein frühes Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Freiheitsidee» Phronesis 68, 167-205.
Dispute settlement and litigation
Origins of law
Zang, Ch. (2025) “Myc. ra-wa-ke-ta and Dor. lāgetās: Diachronic semantics and literary history” CFC (g) 35, 33-48.
Zurbach, J. (2017) «Esclaves, dette, monnaie en Grèce mycénienne» in: Nosch, M.-L. & H. K. Enegren (eds) Aegean Scripts (Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015), II, 659-72, Roma.
Writing and codification
Barrionuevo, S. (2023) «Nomos, publicidad y espacio público» Studia Historica. Historia Antigua 41 https://doi.org/10.14201/shha31318
Cappelletti, L. (2025) “Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law codes and their development” in: Lomas, K. (ed) The world of the western Greeks, 591-611, London.
Maffi, A. (2026) «Il Codice di Gortina come risposta alla transizione verso un’ economia monetaria» in: Symposion 2024, 495-520. (with a reply by G. Thür, 513-20)
Themis, Dike, Thesmos, Nomos, Psephisma
Barrionuevo, S. (2023) «Nomos, publicidad y espacio público» Studia Historica. Historia Antigua 41 https://doi.org/10.14201/shha31318
Rempe, N. (2024) Nomoi: soziale Normen und Gesetze der griechischen Welt bis 450 v. Chr., Stuttgart.
Law and legislators
Cappelletti, L. (2025) “Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law codes and their development” in: Lomas, K. (ed) The world of the western Greeks, 591-611, London.
Ritterschausen, C. (1591) Oratio de Zaleuci et Charonda et legum descriptione utriusque, Altdorf.
Gatto, M. (2026) “Biographies of Early Greek Lawgivers in the Suda” in: Post, A., Roskam, G., Schorn, St., Verheyden, J. & P. Zaccaria (eds) Networking through Biography. Doctrinal and literary strategies in biographical literature for constructing intellectual networks from Antiquity to the Renaissance, 85-111, Turnhout.
Sapere, A. V. (2023) «¿Qué hacen los legisladores con las leyes?: análisis lexico de términos asociados con la actividad legislativa en Licurgo y Solón de Plutarco» Studia Philologica Valentina 25, 85-97.
Lycurgus
Draco
Solon
Linderborg, O. (2025) “A note on monarchos at Solon 9 West (12 Gentili–Prato)” Rosetta 30, 1-8.
Interpretation of laws
Human and fundamental rights
Amenategui Perello, C. (2014) “Human rights and natural law in antiquity. A question of origin” in: Albarian, A. & O. Moreteau (eds) Le droit comparé et … (Actes de la conférence annuelle de Juris Diversitas), 181-91, Aix-en-Provence.
Canevaro, M. (2026) L’Atene dei diritti, Roma.
Canevaro, M. (2026) “I nostri diritti, e il loro. Una riflessione sulla storia dei diritti tra Atene, il mondo modern e quello contemporaneo” in: Ballaira, E., Frillini, A. & A. Maurini (eds) Natural rights history. Orientamenti teorici e guida pratica per un progetto di ricerca applicata, 9-14, Torino.
Otto, E. (2024) “The history of the origins of human rights in Greek philosophy, Roman law and the Hebrew Bible” Forum for Anthropological Sciences 1, https://doi.org/10.59400/fass.v1i1.208
Shapiro, S. O. (2025) “The foundations of human rights in ancient Greek thought” Mediterranean Studies 33, 120-41.
Sternberg, R. H. (2021) The ancient Greek roots of human rights, Austin, TX.
Relation of Greek laws to other legal systems
Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2018) “Prozessprogramm und subsumption in Rom und Athen” in: Gagliardi, L. (ed) Antologia giuridica romanistica ed antiquaria II, 173-96, Milano.
Conflict of laws
Justice and law
Natural law
Burns, T. (2026) “The origins of the concept of natural law in ancient Greece” in: Murtiza, M. A. (ed) Law and morality. Perspectives on natural law theory and legal positivism, 48-67, London.
Legal terminology
Borecky, B. (1965) Survivals of some tribal ideas in classical Greek: The use and the meaning of lanchanō, dateomai and the origin of ison echein, ison nemein, and related idioms, Prague.
Lévy, Ed. (2014) «Le vocabulaire de la violence chez Thucydide» Ktèma 39, 213-33.
Liebersohn, Y. Z. (2023) “Dikaios and cognates in Plato’s Crito” SCI 42, 91-110.
Stemmer, P. (2023) «‘Exeinai’ und ‘exousia’: ein frühes Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Freiheitsidee» Phronesis 68, 167-205.
O’Neil, J. L. (1986) “The semantic use of tyrannos and related words” Antichthon 20, 26-40.
Youni, M. (2026) “Recognition or agreement? Or how to use homologia in Greek epigraphy” in: Symposion 2024, 265-300. (with a reply by L. Pepe, 295-300)
Polis
Bernini, J. & S. Lebreton (2024) «Délibérer avec les dieux : attributs onomastiques et prise de décision à Athènes aux époques classique et hellénistique» Pallas 126, 147-65.
Erdas, D. (2025) “Redistribuzioni di terre nei giuramenti di cittadini tra aspirazione all’uguaglianza e protezione della politeia» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 143-66.
Filonik, J. (2025) “The concept of sharing in the polis: its origins and early developments” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 9-44.
Kyriakidis, N. (2025) La cité des Delphiens. Une communauté politique à l’ombre d’Apollon (VIe-Ier siècle av. J.-C.), Athènes.
Malkin, I. (2022) «Zeus, le tirage au sort et l’égalité des chances» Kernos 35, 61-76.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2023) «Atenas tras la guerra social: Transformaciones institucionales en las épocas de Eubulo y Licurgo» in: Díaz Fernández, A. (ed) Después de Mantinea. El mundo griego y Oriente ante el ascenso de Macedonia, 75-94, Barcelona.
Civic subdivisions
Archives
Constitutions
Caïre, E. (2009) «Variation constitutionnelle chez Thucydide (3, 62, 3)» in: Balansard, A., Dorival, G. & M. Loubet (eds) Les fondements de la tradition classique. Hommage à Didier Pralon, 103-16, Aix-en-Provence.
Cappelletti, L. (2025) “Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law codes and their development” in: Lomas, K. (ed) The world of the western Greeks, 591-611, London.
Cappelletti, L. (2019) «Richerche per una storia costituzionale dell’antica Sicilia» in: Raffeiner, A. (ed) Auf der Klaviatur der Rechtsgeschichte. Festgabe für Kurt Ebert zum 75. Geburtstag, 114-8, Hamburg.
Consolo Langher (1969/70) «Problemi di storia costituzionale siceliota» Helikon 9/10, 107-43. (= Siracusa e la Sicilia greca tra età arcaica ed alto ellenismo, 255-315, Messina 1996)
Giombini, S. (2025) “Politeía y constitución: una genealogía griega del constitucionalismo descriptivo” Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado 38, 3-26.
Kraias, G. (2013-2014) “Ho Epitaphios tou Periklē hōs Syntagma tōn Athēnaiōn» Parnassos 55, 214-37.
Krikona, E. (2024) “Aristotle’s mixed constitution theory” New Classicists 10, 59-79.
Lenfant, D. (2025) “Did the Thirty really want to imitate Sparta?” AncSoc 55, 1-30.
Pezzoli, F. (2025) “Le costituzioni reali e modelli teorici: il concetto di politeia» in: Canevaro, M. & C. Zizza (eds) Aristotele. La Politica, 151-72, Guida.
Reid, J. (2025) “The analysis of constitutions in Plato’s Statesman” Revista Archai, 34 https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_S2
Rosamila, E. (2026) “Participation by Ptolemy’s writ: Cyrene’s constitution and the diagramma of Ptolemy I” Franchi, E. (2026) “Sharing beyond the polis: citizenship and borders in ancient federal Greece” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 429-58, Milan.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2022) “Aristóteles y la posibilidad de una mése politeía» Araucaria 24/49, 351-72.
Tsouni, G. (2026) “Crisis and constitutional change in Aristotle and Cicero” in: Tamiolaki, M. & M. Zimmermann (eds) The concept of crisis in antiquity. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, 125-44, Berlin.
Basileia (Kingship)
Werlings, M.-J. (2015) «Mais pourquoi toujours des bergers? Le roi homérique pasteur d’hommes» Ktèma 40, 43-50.
Oligarchia (Oligarchy)
Lenfant, D. (2026) L’oligarchie des Trente à Athènes (404-403 av. J.-C.). Sources et histoire, Paris.
Nascimento, D. (2024) “From rights to revolutions: on the rise of oligarchies and democracies in Aristotle’s political thought” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_33
Simonton, M. (2026) “Sōphrōn Eunomia: Why It (Supposedly) Paid to Belong to an Oligarchic Community in Classical Greece” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 135-56, Milan.
Demokratia (Democracy)
Aubenque, P. (2011) «Aristote et la conception délibérative de la démocratie» in: Aubenque, P. (ed) Problèmes Aristoteliciens, II: Philosophie pratique, 195-200, Paris.
Barbato, M. (2020) The ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past, Edinburgh.
Blok, J. (2026) “Representation in Democratic Athens: Manin’s Principles Revisited» Representation (2026). DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2026.2688260
Dainotto, R. (2026) “Notions of democracy in the context of historical upheavals and social crises: Demosthenes’ rhetoric Against Leptines” in: Tamiolaki, M. & M. Zimmermann (eds) The concept of crisis in antiquity. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, 97-124, Berlin.
Fornis, C. & J. Jara (2025) “Argive democracy challenged: from hegemonic expectations to civil strife in the Peloponnesian war” in: Weber-Pallez, Cl. & E. Vance (eds) Argos through the Argive lens, 191-208, Athènes.
Loscalzo, D. (2022) Democrazia.1.La nascita, il consolidamento, i consensi, Milano.
Nascimento, D. (2024) “From rights to revolutions: on the rise of oligarchies and democracies in Aristotle’s political thought” Revista Archai 34, https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_33
Peloso, L. (2025) Contro Atene. La democrazia nelle Leggi di Platone, Baden-Baden.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2005) “¿Qué tipo de democracia? La politeía ateniense entre 403 y 322 a.C.» Studia Historica.Historia Antigua 23, 177-229.
Simonton, M. (2026) Ancient Greek Democracies, Cambridge.
Wolf, E. (2024) “On ἐλευθερία, τὸ ζῆν ὡς βούλεταί τις, and virtue in the Aristotelian theory of demokratia” Revista Archai 34 https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_34
Tyrannis (Tyranny)
Barron, J. P. (1964) «The sixth-century tyranny at Samos» CQ 14, 210-29.
Braccesi, L. (1998) I tiranni di Sicilia, Roma.
Iriarte, U. (2026) El rostro de la tiranía: lo que la antigua Grecia nos enseña sobre el poder autocratico, Madrid.
Leorza, M. J. (2022) “Figuras de tiranía en las vidas de Dión y Timoleón de Plutarco» Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna 55/1, 1-23.
Matthaiou, A. P. (2026) To psephisma tou Demophantou, Andokidou, Peri ton mysterion 96-98, Athenai.
Rocchi, L. (2025) “Citizenship and active participation: timē, atimia, and epitimia in ancient Greek legislation against tyranny” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 167-92.
Stuppia, G. (2006) «La tirannide di Ippocrate di Gela tra violenza e consenso» Hormos 8, 103-14.
Magistrates
Cappelletti, L. (2020) “Sull’amphipolos in IG xiv 574 da Centuripe” SCO 66, 133-42.
Ghislanzoni, E. (1925) «I nomophylakes di Cirene» RAL 1/6, 408-32.
Kyriakidis, N. (2025) La cité des Delphiens. Une communauté politique à l’ombre d’Apollon (VIe-Ier siècle av. J.-C.), Athènes.
Laffon, A. (2025) Anarchia. La vacance du pouvoir dans les cités grecques (VIIIe – Ier siècle a.C.), Bordeaux.
Leduc, Cl. (2012) “L’archonte éponyme: le timētēs (= ‘censor’?) des Athéniens aux VIIe-VIe siècles?» Pallas 90, 201-16.
Vance, E. (2025) “Sacred wealth and institutional development at the archaic Argive Heraion” Hesperia 94, 343-95.
Willocx, L. (2025) “For good measure. The control of measuring instruments in the ancient Greek market” in: Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress I. Greek numismatics (11-16.09.2022, Warsaw), 53-58, Turnhout.
Nomothesia (Legislation)
Kamtekar, R. (2026) “The problem of legislation in Plato’s Laws, book III” Polis 43, 101-19.
Matthaiou, A. P. (2026) To psephisma tou Demophantou, Andokidou, Peri ton mysterion 96-98, Athenai.
Miśkiewicz, R. (2025) “Diocles’ law (Dem. 24.42) and the problem of the validity of laws in Athens in the late fifth century BCE” JJP 55, 179-236.
Rocchi, L. (2025) “Citizenship and active participation: timē, atimia, and epitimia in ancient Greek legislation against tyranny” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 167-92.
Scaliger, J. (c. 1590) Pandektēs Nomōn Attikōn, unpublished mss in Leiden University Library, MS SCA31 Pandectae atticae
Stasis, exile, reconciliation
Abarca, A. (2025) “Aporía democrática: un comentario sobre la stásis en La República de Platón» in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 277-306, Buenos Aires.
Álvarez Arias, R. (2023) «La seducción del odio: práctica retórica y politica de la sedición» Synthesis 30 https://doi.org/10.24215/1851779Xe133
Arcenas, S. L. (2025) Political violence in ancient Greece: quantitative and qualitative approaches to stasis, 500–301 BCE, Cambridge.
Arnaoutoglou, I. (2026) “A shred of reconciliation in early classical Eleia” in: Symposion 2024, 53-78. (with a reply by N. Papazarkadas, 71-78)
Bearzot, C. (2025) “Memoria, timoria, orghé vs. oblio del male subito e perdono. Retorica ed emoxioni nei primi anni della restorazione democratica ateniese” Rationes Rerum 25, 95-108.
Donoso Johnson, P. (2025) “Tucídides stasiōtēs” in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 87-108, Buenos Aires.
Ferraioli, F. (2012) «Aristotele su Diagora» in: Polito, M. & C. Talamo (eds) Istituzioni e costituzioni in Aristotele tra storiografia e pensiero politico (Atti dell’ incontro internazionale di studi, Fisciano 30 settembre – 1 ottobre 2010), 321-30, Tivoli (Roma).
Landaeta, P. (2025) «La clinica filosófica de Platón contra la stásis» in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 307-28, Buenos Aires.
Lentini, G. (2023) «Non è meglio eliminare la ‘stasis’? (Alc. frr. 70 e 130b Lib)» Eikasmos 34, 13-45.
Nováková, L. & P. Roháč (2025) “Between tyranny and democracy: The conflicts of the Greek poleis in Sicily (to the 5th Century BC)” Anodos 17, 143-62.
Plastow, Chr. (2026) “Space and reconciliation in Athens after the Thirty” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 216-31, Abingdon.
San Román, M. F. (2025) “Demagogia y stásis: ¿una relación necesaria?” in: Arancibia Carrizo, J. P. (ed) Stásis, tragedia y democracia. Ensayos sobre tragedia y política, 41-86, Buenos Aires.
Stefanovski, M. & K. Cavoski (2023) “Polis, loimos, stasis. Thucydides about disintegration of the political system” Conatus 8/2, 629-56.
Ostracism
Polis finances, taxation, coinage
Fitzgerald, J. T. (2022) “Taxation in the early Greek world and the ethics of tax compliance and evasion in early Greek moral thought” in: Kotzé, G. R. & P. R. Bosman (eds) Ancient philosophy and early Christianity: studies in honor of Johan C. Thom, 217-45, Leiden.
Flament, Chr. (2025) «Recherches sur la fiscalité minière à Athènes durant l’époque classique» REA 127, 359-64.
Günther, Sv. (2025) “Framing the debate: Xenophon’s Poroi and the Athenian tax-system” Journal of Greco-Roman Studies 63/3, 67-87.
Paarman, B. (2026) “Tribute and taxation” in: Daubner, Fr., Reiner, P. & Chr. Rollinger (eds) The Attic empire. The Athenians and their allies in the fifth century. A handbook, 241-86, Berlin.
Willocx, L. (2025) “For good measure. The control of measuring instruments in the ancient Greek market” in: Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress I. Greek numismatics (11-16.09.2022, Warsaw), 53-58, Turnhout.
Status
Carusi, C. (2026) “Patterns and scope of the integration of non-citizens into the Athenian civic community” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 237-62, Milan.
Age classes
Citizenship
Amendola, D. (2026) “Promiscuous Nations, Easily Shifting, and Easily Admitting New Commers: πολιτογραφίαι, Manipulation of the Civic Body and Multiple Citizenships in Deinomenid Sicily” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 279-309, Milan.
Bertelli, L. (2018) «Il cittadino in Aristotele: criteri di inclusione/esclusione» in: de Luise, F. (ed) Cittadinanza. Inclusi ed esclusi tra gli antichi e i moderni, 125-64, Trento.
Blok, J. (2026) “Isos kai homoios in Greek citizenship” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 97-116, Milan.
Bultrighini, I. (2025) «Forme di integrazione dei non cittadini nella comunità civica ateniese di età classica e il caso dei trierarchi» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 275-312.
Canevaro, M. (2026) “Towards a unified theory of Greek citizenship as time: Worth, rights, social erformance, and political participation” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 57-78, Milan.
Cecchet, L. (2025) «Cittadini di quale classe? Appartenenza censitaria e stigma sociale nell’Atene classica» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 193-224.
Delios, A. A. (2025) “Hē aponomē tēs thasiakēs politeias stous Neopolites stis arches tou 4ou aiōna p. Ch. (IG xii, 264)” Thasiaka 24, 82-88.
Erdas, D. (2026) “Land lost, land redistributed: citizenship and property between stability and change in the archaic and classical Greek world” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 263-78, Milan.
Erdas, D. (2026) «Protezioni legali sulla terra nelle clausole di accesso alla cittadinanza: osservazioni preliminari» in: de Vido, St., Esposito, A., Pollini, A. & Cl. Weber-Pallez (eds) Territoires multiples. Espaces, définitions, experiences dans le monde grec VIIe – Ier siècle a.C., 55-68, Bordeaux.
Falco, G. (2026) “Class, citizenship and symbolic struggles in classical Athens” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 189-236, Milan.
Falco, G. (2025) «Voices across boundaries: Citizenship, language, and ethnicity in classical Athens and Hellenistic-Roman Delos” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 225-74.
Faraguna, M. (2026) “Citizenship, land tenure, and community: A view from Oropos” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 311-30, Milan.
Ferrucci, S. (2026) “Motherhood and citizenship in the classical polis” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 173-88, Milan.
Filonik, J. (2026) “The Proper Share: The Language of Citizenship, Participation, and Enfranchisement in Classical Greece” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 117-33, Milan.
Franchi, E. (2026) “Sharing beyond the polis: citizenship and borders in ancient federal Greece” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 411-28, Milan.
Giangiulio, M. (2025) «Cittadinanze coloniali arciche. Appunti su Massalia, Siracusa e Apollonia sullo Ionio» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 95-114.
Giombini, S. (2025) “Derecho, homogeneidad y exclusión en el mundo griego antiguo” in: Cañabate Pérez, J. & M. H. Vallés (eds) Derechos otros. Experiencias jurídicas desde una mirada crítica y decolonial, 377-93, Madrid.
Kellogg, D. L. (2025) “Call the witnesses: Athenian citizenship practice at the crossroads of memory, ritual, and identity” in: Panoussi, V. & W. Hutton (eds) Memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome, 153-68, Berlin.
Magnetto, A. (2025) “Lo statuto dei neocittadini negli accordi di sincismo, sympoliteia e isopoliteia” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 115-42.
Malitz, J. (2010) Misthos. Die Besoldung des Bürgers in der athenischen Demokratie, Heidelberg. (on line)
Müller, Chr. (2026) La fabrique du citoyen. Les Grecs et la politeia d’Aristote à Auguste, Paris.
Poddighe, E. (2026) “Aristotle on Citizenship as Sharing (koinōnein) in the Political Community: A Matter of Degree?” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 21-55, Milan.
Poddighe, E. (2025) “Sulla definizione di cittadino nel libro III della Politica: il metodo di Aristotele tra theoria, empeiria e storia delle praxeis” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 45-94.
Preus, A. (2009) «Citizenship and participation in government in ancient Greek political thought” Skepsis 16, 150-63.
Rocchi, L. (2025) “Citizenship and active participation: timē, atimia, and epitimia in ancient Greek legislation against tyranny” Erga - Logoi 13/2, 167-92.
Scott, A. (2026) “Perikles’ citizenship law: Gender, class, and the boundarie of existence in classical Athenian society” The General: Brock University Undergraduate Journal 11, 10-17.
Sebillote Cuchet, V. (2015) «Citoyens et citoyennes dans la cité grecque classique. Où joue le genre?» Tempo 21/38, 281-99.
Walser, A. V. (2026) “Synpoliteuein: being a citizen with others” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 359-80, Milan.
Phratries
Metics (Resident foreigners)
Bultrighini, I. (2025) «Forme di integrazione dei non cittadini nella comunità civica ateniese di età classica e il caso dei trierarchi» Erga – Logoi 13/2, 275-312.
Dougherty, C. (2023) “Questions of the foreigner: metoikia and democracy in Aeschylus’ Suppliants” ClAnt 42, 49-86.
Yue, M. (2026) “Metics across boundaries: inhabitants’ polis and spatial narratives in Athenian forensic oratory” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 154-82, Abingdon.
Xenoi
Freedmen
Coleman, J. (2026) “Labour, agency, and the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th-century Athens” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 133-53, Abingdon.
Valdés Guía, M. (2025) «De esclavo a libre. Apeleutheroi en el santuario de Heracles en el Cinosarges de Atenas» Arys 23, 231-56.
Valdés Guía, M. (2025) “From apeleutheroi to exeleutheroi in classical Athens” Incidenza dell’Antico 23, 9-41.
Slaves
see also Bibliographie zur antiken Sklaverei http://www.adwmainz.de/index.php?id=322
Coleman, J. (2026) “Labour, agency, and the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th-century Athens” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 133-53, Abingdon.
Maffi, A. (2025) “Prostituzione a Gortina?” ZPE 235, 85-88.
Sixtensson, Fr. (2024-2025) “A new interpretation of slaves’ isēgoria” Eranos 115, 77-83.
Volonaki, E. (2026) “The portrayal of slaves in forensic oratory and the connection with enslaved people in real life” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 113-32, Abingdon.
Women and law
see also https://diotima-doctafemina.org/
Bianchi Mancini, S. (2026) “Women as legitimate adversaries: The evidence of Selinountine legal curses” BICS, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbag016
Calderón Sánchez, M. (2023) “Las hiereiai (sacerdotisas) del dios Dioniso: una aproximación” CFC (g) 33, 237-53.
Frank, K. B. (2026) “Juxtaposing formats: studying northwestern Greek women through formal and personal inscriptions” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbag004
Giombini, S. (2025) “El cuerpo y el poder en el proceso por asébeia contra la hetera Friné” in: Puigvert Planagumà, G. & M. Oller Guzmán (eds) Influencia, poder y liderazgo femeninos en la Antigüedad grecorromana, 63-82, Madrid.
Glazebrook, A. (2026) “Women and place in the speeches of Isaios” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 36-55, Abingdon.
Siron, N. (2026) “Identification of citizen women in the Attic orators: a reconsideration from Demosthenes 27-29 and 44” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 15-35, Abingdon.
Associations
see also Copenhagen Association Project https://copenhagenassociations.saxo.ku.dk/inventory-of-ancient-associations-database/
Family and inheritance
Brisson, L. (2022) «La critique de mariage et de la famille dans les Républiques de Platon, Diogène le cynique et Zénon de Citium» in: Husson, S. & J. Lemaire (eds) Les trois Républiques: Platon, Diogène de Sinope et Zénon de Citium, 119-32, Paris.
Ferrucci, St. (2025) “Motherhood and the law in classical Athens” in: Perdicoyianni-Paléologou, H. (ed) The nature of woman and social aspects of motherhood in the Greco-Roman antiquity, 229-60, Amsterdam.
Lehmann, H. J. C. (2026) “Topographies of affection: the space of kinship in Athenian inheritance speeches” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 232-51, Abingdon.
Household
Kinship
Guardianship
Marriage
Harst, J. (2015) “‘Homerisches Recht’. Eid, Ehe, und Verbinlichkeit im griechischen Epos” in: Hiebaum, Chr., Knaller, S. & D. Pichler (eds) Recht undLiteratur im Zwischenraum. Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge, 225-57, Bielefeld.
Leduc, Cl. (2011) «Ego et ses trois sœurs (germaine, utérine, consaguine): Athènes et Sparte, VIe siècle – IVe siècle av. J.-C.» Pallas 85, 237-70.
Dowry
Divorce
Harst, J. (2021) ‘Universalgeschichte des Ehebruchs’: Verbindlichkeit zwischen Recht, Religion und Literatur, Göttingen.
Illegitimacy
Adoption
Wills
Succession ab intestato
Epikleros
Contractual and property relations
Youni, M. (2026) “Recognition or agreement? Or how to use homologia in Greek epigraphy” in: Symposion 2024, 265-300. (with a reply by L. Pepe, 295-300)
Obligation
Harst, J. (2015) “‘Homerisches Recht’. Eid, Ehe, und Verbinlichkeit im griechischen Epos” in: Hiebaum, Chr., Knaller, S. & D. Pichler (eds) Recht und Literatur im Zwischenraum. Aktuelle inter- und transdisziplinäre Zugänge, 225-57, Bielefeld.
Contract
Kolveris, N. (2024) “Once again on homologia: The papyrological documentation revisited” JJP 54, 81-104.
Enktesis
Sale
Comparetti, D. (1914) “Laminetta argentea iscritta di Aidone (Sicilia)» ASAA 1, 113-8.
Lease
Mortgages and securities
Servitudes
Loan
Aka, A. M. (2023) «Prêt d’amitié (eranoi) et prêt à intérêt (daneia) à Athènes à l’époque classique» Studia Historica. Historia Antigua 41 https://doi.org/10.14201/shha29100
Endowments
Locatio
Jacquemin, A. (1990) «Architekton-ergolabos/ergones» Ktèma 15, 81-88.
Other kinds of contracts
Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2020) Der „ungetreue Verwahrer“: Eine Studie zur Haftungsbegründung im griechischen und frühen römischen Depositenrecht, München.
Trade and finance
Harris, E. M. (2025) “Plato and the market in the Republic” in: Fermani, A., Irrera, E. & F. Piangerelli (eds) Oikos nomos. Politics and economics in ancient thought, 19-62, Pistoia.
Rutishauser, B. (2026) “‘To have the consent of the ruler of the sea’: Athenian trade policies and their effects” in: Daubner, Fr., Reiner, P. & Chr. Rollinger (eds) The Attic empire. The Athenians and their allies in the fifth century. A handbook, 287-306, Berlin.
Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2026) «Reisegeld, Lösegeld, Kredit. Zu den Finanztransaktionen in Demosthenes 53 (gegen Nikostratos)” in: Symposion 2024, 163-228. (with a reply by M. Faraguna, 217-28).
Commercial law
Karabelas, D. (2026) “Ho kata Athenogenous logos tou Hypereidē kai hē metavivasē tōn chreōn tēs emporikēs epicheirēsēs” in: Emporio kai dikaio. Dōrēma kathēgētē Euangelou Perrakē, 486-500, Athena.
Maritime law
Hossain, M. S. (2025) “Navigating antiquity: legal traditions of the sea in ancient Greek civilization” Journal of One Initiative Research and Development 4/2, 16-31.
Banks
Procedure
Papakonstantinou, K. K. (2023) “Hē epirrhoē tou tychaiou stēn attikē dikonomia” in: Strangas, J., Belvisi, Fr., Chanos, Ant., Moschopoulos, D., Pyrgakis, D. & V. Vasilopoulou (eds) Energēma, tychaio kai dikaio (Eisēgēseis anakoinōtheises eis to diepistēmoniko phrontistērio 2017-2018), 585-604, Athens.
Sato, N. (2026) “Character portrayal of corona: people around the Athenian lawcourt” BICS https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaf039
Scheibelreiter, Ph. (2018) “Prozessprogramm und subsumptio in Rom und Athen” in: Gagliardi, L. (ed) Antologia giuridica romanistica ed antiquaria II, 173-96, Milano.
Arbitration
Bialy, S. (2023) “Mediacja jako alternatywna forma rozwiązywania sporów z perspektywy Grecij” (Mediation as an alternative form of dispute resolution from a Greek perspective) Arbitraż i Mediacja 16/1, 9-36.
Koliopoulos, A. & O. Kourtoglou (2025) “The philosophy of mediation procedures in ancient Greece” Dia-noesis 18/2, 481-504.
Courts
Pucci, L. (2023) «Oreste e il Delfinio: per una rilettura di Dem. 23.74» Vichiana 60, 89-104.
Areopagos
Procedures (Dikai – Graphai)
Capizzi, C. (2025) “Sycophancy as the (inevitable) failure of Athenian democratic ideals and its accusatorial legal system” Mediares 2, 53-98.
Procedures (Extraordinary)
Antidosis
Antigraphē
Apagōgē
Apographē
Diadikasia
Diamarturia
Dokimasia
Eisangelia
Endeixis
Ephēgēsis
Paragraphē
Phasis
Probolē
Skēpsis
Famous trials
Calenda, G. (2022) La condanna di Socrate. Audiatur et altera pars, Baden-Baden.
Sancho Rocher, L. (2023) “La crisis de la noción de legalidad y la defensa de la ley por Sócrates” Isegoría, 69. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.21
Personnel
Karathanasis, K. (2026) “Aristophanes and the phratry of triobolos: Revisiting the social composition of Athens’ judiciary” CPh 121, 16-39.
† Kroll, J. H. (2026) “Four new pinakion fragments from the Athenian Agora” Hesperia 95, 99-102.
Proofs
Witnesses
Torture (Basanos)
Visvardi, E. (2025) “Tainted testimonies: torture, abjection, and the politics of culpability on the tragic stage. The case of Euripides’ Hecuba” in: Fernández, C. N. & G. C. Zecchin (eds) Pensar la Antigüedad en clave contemporanea. Enfoques interdisciplinarias y nuevos paradigmas, 52-72, La Plata.
Oaths
Enforcement
Crime and punishment
Aktas, Z. (2023) “The justification of punishment in Plato” Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 35, 261-79. (in Turkish)
Antolín García, A. (2023) «kai ton bion ton humeteron autōn asphalesteron katastēsete. Malhechores y policia en la Atenas clásica» in: Koina ta tōn philōn. Estudios en homenaje a Luis Gil Fernández, 133-40, Madrid.
Capizzi, C. (2025) “Sycophancy as the (inevitable) failure of Athenian democratic ideals and its accusatorial legal system” Mediares 2, 53-98.
Comparetti, D. (1914) «La iscrizione arcaica di Mantinea» ASAA 1, 1-17.
Fiamingo, L. (2025) “I riferimenti alla "vendetta" nei casi di anomia e paranomia: analisi lessicale e prospettive giuridiche nella tragedia greca” Rhesis. Special Issue: "Dall’Anomia alla Norma", 31-54.
Fiamingo, L. (2023) «Fra mito e diritto: forme e funzioni della vendetta nell’ ‘Ecuba’ e negli ‘Eraclidi’ di Euripidi» Tycho 9, 21-43.
Gotteland, S. (2014) «Bia et hybris: quelques remarques sur le vocabulaire de la violence politique chez Isocrate» Ktèma 39, 235-51.
Jouët-Pastré, E. (2012) “Quelques réflexions sur le châtiment dans les dialogues platoniciens: le philosophe peut-il justifier le châtiment physique?» Pallas 88, 61-69.
Kucharski, J. (2026) “Punishing the disadvantaged: status-defining penalties and their ideology in classical Athens” in: Lehmann, H. J. C. & Chr. Plastow (eds) Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society, 95-112, Abingdon.
Méndez Santiago, B. (2026) “La violencia contra las personas mayores en la Antigüedad. Un acercamiento multidisciplinar” in: Conesa Navarro, P. D., Reboreda Morillo, S. & J. M. Noguera Celdrán (eds) La vulnerabilidad en la Mediterraneo Antiguo. Espacios reales e imaginarios, 227-45, Roma.
Schmitz, W. (2026) “Wiedergutmachung Fordern” in: Symposion 2024, 79-116. (with a reply by E. M. Harris, 107-16)
Woram, K. (2026) “Treason and atimia in fifth-century Athens: the evidence from tragedy” Greece & Rome 73, 123-48.
Homicide
Frossinakis, Chr. (2025) “Plato’s Drakontian echoes. Phaedo (113d-114c) and Athenian homicide law” Hermes 153, 385-93.
Sparling, R. (2026) “Patricide and Plato’s deontic option” Polis 43, 53–76.
Hybris
Cairns, D. (2025) “Lucky fools. Luck, risk and merit in the ancient Greek concept of hybris” in: Cairns, D., Bouras N. & E. Sadler-Smith (eds) Hubris, ancient and modern. Concepts, comparisons, connections, 57-68, Cambridge.
Cairns, D. & F. C. Sarinho (2024) «Hybris, ancient and modern” Revista Archai 34 https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_31
Canevaro, M. (2025) “The hybris of the Downtrodden. Honour and social control in ancient Greek society (and today)” in: Cairns, D., Bouras N. & E. Sadler-Smith (eds) Hubris, ancient and modern. Concepts, comparisons, connections, 69-87, Cambridge.
Fisher, N. (2025) “Hybris in ancient Greece. Syndrome, anti-social behavior - or both?” in: Cairns, D., Bouras N. & E. Sadler-Smith (eds) Hubris, ancient and modern. Concepts, comparisons, connections, 33-56, Cambridge.
Sexual offences
Koursaros, N. (2022) “‘Hetairēsis’ kai ‘dokimasia rhētorōn’: hē nomikē ptychē tēs porneias stēn klasikē Athēna” in: Papanikolaou, A. (ed) Proceedings of the 10th Conference of Postgraduate Students and PhD Candidates of the Faculty of Philosophy, NKUA, 195-211, Athens.
Maffi, A. (2025) “Prostituzione a Gortina?” ZPE 235, 85-88.
Theft
Other offences
Penalties
Atimia
Rocchi, L. (2025) “Citizenship and active participation: timē, atimia, and epitimia in ancient Greek legislation against tyranny” Erga – Logoi 13/2, 167-92.
Valdés Guía, M. (2022) “Atimoi per deudas. Expulsión y reintegración de atimoi en Atenas clásica» Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna 55/2, 1-24.
Woram, K. (2026) “Treason and atimia in fifth-century Athens: the evidence from tragedy” Greece & Rome 73, 123-48.
Confiscation of property
Death penalty
Epobelia
Exile
Imprisonment
Larsen, M. D. C. & M. Letteney (2025) Ancient Mediterranean incarceration, Oakland, CA.
Parakatabole
Environment and law
Religion and law
Bremmer, J. (2026) “From anomaly to transgression. The individual and civic religious norms” in: Kindt, J. (ed) Personal religion in the ancient Greek world, 27-46, Cambridge.
Vance, E. (2025) “Sacred wealth and institutional development at the archaic Argive Heraion” Hesperia 94, 343-95.
Asebeia (Impiety)
Giombini, S. (2025) “El cuerpo y el poder en el proceso por asébeia contra la hetera Friné” in: Puigvert Planagumà, G. & M. Oller Guzmán (eds) Influencia, poder y liderazgo femeninos en la Antigüedad grecorromana, 63-82, Madrid.
Zaks, N. (2025) «Le pathos de l’impiété dans le livre X des Lois» in: Walmsley, L. & S. Delacomminette (eds) Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon, 160-72, Leiden.
Asylia (Inviolability)
Antypas, A. (2023) “Zētēmata asylias kai politikou nomou stis Hiketides tou Aischylou” in: Youni, M. & K. Papakonstantinou (eds) Archaio drama, dikaio & politikē, 157-76, Athens.
Defixiones (Curses)
Bianchi Mancini, S. (2026) “Women as legitimate adversaries: The evidence of Selinountine legal curses” BICS, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbag016
Nikolaev, N. & L. Tsyganenko (2022) “Magical spell from Olbia with author’s signature” Revista Archeologica n.s. 18/2, 47-54.
Leges sacrae – ritual norms see also http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be
Inter-poleis relations
Guarducci, M. (1941-1943) “Un decreto di Argo ritrovato a Pallantion” ASAA 3-4, 141-54.
James, J. (2026) Law of all the Greeks. International law as social reality in ancient Greece, Oxford.
Vicente Sánchez, A. (2017) «La compra-venda de territori entre Focea i Quíos: un cas paradigmàtic?» in: de la Villa Polo, J., Falque Rey, M., González Castro, J. F. & J. Muñoz Jiménez (eds) Conventus classicorum. Temas y formas del mundo clásico, II, 271-8, Madrid.
Diplomacy
Gazzano, Fr. (2025) “Da prototipo ad eccezione: la diplomazia dei Greci nella storia delle relazioni internazionali” in: Bearzot, C., Bodini, B.C., Bonomelli, C., Perini, F. & P. A. Tuci (eds) Diplomazia: conflitti e risoluzioni (Atti della Summer School 2024), 83-106, Milano.
Lenfant, D. (2024) “Greek cities and diplomatic gifts in the classical period” in: Sánchez Moreno, E. & E. García Riaza (eds) The materiality of diplomacy in the Hellenistic – Roman Mediterranean. Gifts, bribes, offerings, 34-56, Edinburgh.
International arbitration
Leagues - Federations
Dmitriev, S. (2025) “The Aristoteles decree and Athens’ imperialist policies in the fourth century” CQ 75, 165-78.
Franchi, E. (2026) “Sharing beyond the polis: citizenship and borders in ancient federal Greece” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 411-28, Milan.
Lazar, L. (2026) “Administration and communication” in: Daubner, Fr., Reiner, P. & Chr. Rollinger (eds) The Attic empire. The Athenians and their allies in the fifth century. A handbook, 179-96, Berlin.
Loddo, L. (2026) “Exploring the Development of Representative Institutions in Greek Federal States: The Council as a Key Institution in Representative Governments” in: Faraguna, M. & D. Erdas (eds) Sharing in the polis. Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World, 381-410, Milan.
Moraes da Silva, Br. & F. De Souza Lessa (2023) “A arkhé ateniense: império e redes no Mediterraneo Antigo” in: Maris de Carvalho, M., Moreno Leoni, A. & N. Frazão José (eds) Império, imperadores e redes de sociabilidade na Antiguedade, 91-110, Curitibo.
Metropoleis and colonies
Marchiandi, D. & M. Mari (2026) «Athenian settlements abroad” in: Daubner, Fr., Reiner, P. & Chr. Rollinger (eds) The Attic empire. The Athenians and their allies in the fifth century. A handbook, 217-40, Berlin.
Robu, A. (2025) «Métropoles et ‘colonies’ dans le monde grec: Le rôle des nomima dans la creation des identités des apoikiai» in: De Luna, M. E., Tropea, St., Cristofori, A. & G. P. Viscardi (eds) Spazi, modi e rappresentazioni dell’identità nel mondo greco e romano. Casi di permanenze e transformazioni, 63-80, Milano.
Proxenia – see also http://proxenies.csad.ox.ac.uk/places/home
Treaties – Symbola
Magnetto, A. (2025) “Lo statuto dei neocittadini negli accordi di sinicismo, sympoliteia e isopoliteia” Erga - Logoi 13/2, 115-42.
Sudano, N. (2016) “La symmachia fra Camarina e i Siculi (Filisto, FGrHist 556 F5)” Sicilia Antiqua 13, 193-9.