Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre
of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of
rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law
has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and
imagination. But modern legal scholarship has paid little attention
to the actual juridical discourse of ancient Greece. This book
rectifies that neglect through an analysis of the courtroom
speeches from classical Athens, texts situated precisely at the
intersection between law and literature. Reading these texts for
their subtle literary qualities and their sophisticated legal
philosophy, it proposes that in Athens' juridical discourse
literary form and legal matter are inseparable. Through its
distinctive focus on the literary form of Athenian forensic
oratory, Law's Cosmos aims to shed new light on its juridical
thought, and thus to change the way classicists read forensic
oratory and legal historians view Athenian law.
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