Description
Book SynopsisA preface by editors Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub details the importance of Westbrook's work for the field of classics, while Sophie Demare-Lafont's incisive introduction places Westbrook's ideas within the wider context of ancient law.
Trade ReviewIndividually and cumulatively (his) essays encourage a re-examination of shared cultural heritage often fiercely resisted by classicist. -- Rockwell CJ It is the singular admiration for his diagnostic skills which attracts readers of ancient Near Eastern law to his scholarship, and as a result he will not be forgotten... The Ds Commentary
Table of ContentsEditors' Note
Preface
Introduction
1. The Trial Scene in the Iliad
2. Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship
3. Drakon's Homicide Law
4. Barbarians at the Gates
5. The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables
6. Restrictions on Alienation of Property in Early Roman Law
7. The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia
8. Vitae Necisque Potestas
9. The Origin of Laesio Enormis
10. Codification and Canonization
11. Reflections on the Law of Homicide in the Ancient World
12. The Early History of Law
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
