The litigious Athenian
by Matthew Robert Christ
The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos). Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In particular, they were aware that unscrupulous individuals might manipulate the laws and the legal process to serve their own purposes.
Indeed, throughout the Classical period, when Athenians gathered in public and private settings, they regularly discussed, debated, and complained about legal chicanery, or "sukophantia". In The Litigious Athenian, Matthew Christ explores what this ancient discussion reveals about how Athenians conceived of and responded to, problematic aspects of their collective legal experience.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and indexes.
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