Michael Gagarin

Professor Emeritus of Classics Michael Gagarin

Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities.

Early Greek Law

Cambridge University Press

Raymond Geuss

Paul Woodruff

Quentin Skinner

Including the works of more than thirty authors, this edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes the origin of human society and law; the nature of justice and good government; the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Professor Emeritus of Classics Michael Gagarin

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