A systematic and historical treatment of the civil and criminal procedure of Cicero's time. At the same time, the author examines the legal difficulties and contradictions found in Cicero's writings on procedure. With a subject index and index to passages found in Cicero's works. Of value to the student of Roman Law, ciminal and military procedure and law, and the history of European courts.

First published in 1904, this volume began what was to be the magnum opus of the highly regarded Classical scholar, A.H.J. Greenidge. Though published posthumously, the work stands alone as a valuable contribution to Classical history. Beginning with a socioeconomic history which exposes the conditions preceding and determining the great conflict of interests to follow, Greenidge then explores the story of Rome from Scipio Aemilianus and the Gracchi brothers until the second election of Marius to the consulship.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

1901. Greenidge writes in the Preface that the leading design of this book is to furnish students of Cicero's writings with a clue to the chief legal difficulties which they will meet with in their reading. These difficulties are far more numerous in the sphere of procedure than in that of substantive law; and, as it was quite impossible to write a work of moderate compass which dealt with both branches of the subject, I have thought it better to confine my attention mainly to the former; although, as will easily be understood, it has proved impossible to deal thoroughly with the procedure of the period which I have treated, without touching on many questions of pure law; so intimately are these bound up with the forms in which they were presented to the courts. Partial Contents: Book I. Civil Procedure. Part I. The Courts of the Monarchy and Early Republic; Part II. The Courts of the Ciceronian Period; and Book II. Criminal Procedure.

1914. Greenidge writes in the Preface that this little book is meant to be of assistance to those who find difficulty in mastering what he has often regarded as the least attractive (probably because it is the least understood) portion of Greek history. Contents: Early Development of the Greek Constitutions through Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Tyranny to Constitutional Government; Colonisation-International Law; Classifications of Constitutions-Oligarchy; Mixed Constitutions; Democracy; Federal Governments; and Hellenism and the Fate of the Greek Constitutions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1901. Greenidge writes in the Preface that the leading design of this book is to furnish students of Cicero's writings with a clue to the chief legal difficulties which they will meet with in their reading. These difficulties are far more numerous in the sphere of procedure than in that of substantive law; and, as it was quite impossible to write a work of moderate compass which dealt with both branches of the subject, I have thought it better to confine my attention mainly to the former; although, as will easily be understood, it has proved impossible to deal thoroughly with the procedure of the period which I have treated, without touching on many questions of pure law; so intimately are these bound up with the forms in which they were presented to the courts. Partial Contents: Book I. Civil Procedure. Part I. The Courts of the Monarchy and Early Republic; Part II. The Courts of the Ciceronian Period; and Book II. Criminal Procedure.

1894. Contents: On the Meaning of Existimatio; On the Meaning of Infamia; The Censorian Infamia and Its Developments; The Praetorian Infamia and Its Developments; Later History of the Infamia; Effects of the Developed Conception of Infamia; Infamia in Its Application to Women; Modes of Extinguishing Infamia; and Modified Forms of Disqualification Based on Character and Standing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Text extracted from opening pages of book: of s antt & ntiqtutirs A HANDBOOK GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY A HANDBOOK GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOBY A. PL J. - aEEEKLDGE, M. A. LATE lECTURER AND 1' KLLOW OK ItEfiTlrtmb ( JOLLfitiK, A. ND crURER IN ANCIENT IIIbTORY AT BRAhKNUblil ( JOLLLGU, OAKOIlD MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1914 TO MY FA THEE PEEFAGE THIS little book Is meant to be of assistance to those who find difficulty in mastering what I have often found regarded as the least attractive, probably because it is the least understood, portion of Greek history. The merest glance at its pages will be sufficient to show how little it attempts to compete with such standard works on Greek Political Antiquities as some of those mentioned in the brief bibliography which I have given on page xv. My debt to the works of Hermann, Schomann, Gilbert, and to the scholars who have written in Handbooks or in Dictionaries of Antiquities, is very great indeed \ for no one can move a step in Greek Constitutional Law without consult ing authorities as remarkable for the fulness as for the accuracy of their detail. But, apart from the obviously smaller compass of this treatise, my object has been somewhat different from that of most of these writers. Completeness of detail could not be aimed at in a work of this size; such an attempt would have changed what professes to be a History into a too con cise, and therefore almost unintelligible, Manual of Political Antiquities. My purpose has been to give in a brief narrative form the main lines of development of Greek Public Law, to represent the different types of states in the order of their development, and to pay more attentionto the working than to the mere structure of constitutions. I have attempted, in the introductory chapter of this work, to offer some considera viii OUTLINES OF GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY tions which justify a separate study of Greek political institu tions, so rarely attempted in this country; consequently it is needless to anticipate at this point the reasons for a procedure which, perhaps, does not need defence. Throughout the work I have cited the original passages from ancient authors on which every fact or assertion of any degree of importance is based. Considerations of space forbade more ample quotations from the texts of the original authorities or a fuller discussion of passages which have given rise to differences of interpretation. In citing inscriptions references have been given to the Handbooks which I believed to be most easily accessible to students. In no case have I referred to the Corpus Inscriptiomm Graecarum or the Corpus Inscriptionum AUkarwn where I knew that the inscription was to be found in the Manuals of Hicks, Dittenberger, and Cauer. My thanks are due to my wife for valuable suggestions in the correction of the proofs, for a great share of the labour in preparing the Index, and for the map which accompanies this voln e - A. R J. G. OXFOTID, June 1896. CONTENTS ( The references are to the pages) CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SECT. The constitutional aspect of Greek History, 1. Primary political COP captions, 4; the State and the Constitution, 4; political office, 6; the Citizen, 7; the Law, 8; public and piivate law, 9; authoritative character of law, 10. CHAPTER II EARLY DEVELOPMENT OP THE GREEK CONSTITUTIONS THROUGH MONARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, AND TYRANNY TOCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT Origin of the city-state; the tribe and the clan, 12. Origin of Greek monarchy, 14; character of the heroic monarchy, 15; downfall of this monarchy, 17. Transfer of government to the clans, 19; nature of the clan, 20, The early aristocracies, 21; tendency to oligarchic govern ment, 22. Impulse to colonisation, 24. Early Greek tyranny, 25; its origin, 25; the tyrants, 27; character of their government, 30; how far was it constitutional, 31; political and social consequences of their rule, 32; downfall of tyranny, 33. Rise of con

1894. Contents: On the Meaning of Existimatio; On the Meaning of Infamia; The Censorian Infamia and Its Developments; The Praetorian Infamia and Its Developments; Later History of the Infamia; Effects of the Developed Conception of Infamia; Infamia in Its Application to Women; Modes of Extinguishing Infamia; and Modified Forms of Disqualification Based on Character and Standing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The democratic principle in its extreme form is the assertation that the mere fact of free birth is alone sufficient to constitute a claim to all offices. It is never the claim of a majority to rule, but it is the demand that every one, whether rich or poor, high- or low-born, shall be equally represented in the constitution. This is what Aristotle calls the principle of numerical equality.-from "Chapter VI: Democracy"One of the most renowned classical scholars of the turn of the 20th century here offers a lucid and highly readable overview of a difficult and little understood aspect of Greek history: its public law, not just how it was structured but how it behaved in action. This 1896 book-perfect for university students, amateur historians, and readers of the history of the law-covers the full range of Greek legal development, from the origin of the city-state and the beginnings of the Greek monarchy to the social and political institutions of the far-flung Greek civilization to the rise of federalism and its long-term historical impact on the cultures that came after.British classical scholar A.H.J. GREENIDGE was a lecturer in ancient history at Brasenose College, Oxford. He is also the author of Roman Public and Private Law (1894), Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time (1901), and Roman Public Life (1901), among many other works of ancient history.

1894. Contents: On the Meaning of Existimatio; On the Meaning of Infamia; The Censorian Infamia and Its Developments; The Praetorian Infamia and Its Developments; Later History of the Infamia; Effects of the Developed Conception of Infamia; Infamia in Its Application to Women; Modes of Extinguishing Infamia; and Modified Forms of Disqualification Based on Character and Standing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1901. Greenidge writes in the Preface that the leading design of this book is to furnish students of Cicero's writings with a clue to the chief legal difficulties which they will meet with in their reading. These difficulties are far more numerous in the sphere of procedure than in that of substantive law; and, as it was quite impossible to write a work of moderate compass which dealt with both branches of the subject, I have thought it better to confine my attention mainly to the former; although, as will easily be understood, it has proved impossible to deal thoroughly with the procedure of the period which I have treated, without touching on many questions of pure law; so intimately are these bound up with the forms in which they were presented to the courts. Partial Contents: Book I. Civil Procedure. Part I. The Courts of the Monarchy and Early Republic; Part II. The Courts of the Ciceronian Period; and Book II. Criminal Procedure.

1914. Greenidge writes in the Preface that this little book is meant to be of assistance to those who find difficulty in mastering what he has often regarded as the least attractive (probably because it is the least understood) portion of Greek history. Contents: Early Development of the Greek Constitutions through Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Tyranny to Constitutional Government; Colonisation-International Law; Classifications of Constitutions-Oligarchy; Mixed Constitutions; Democracy; Federal Governments; and Hellenism and the Fate of the Greek Constitutions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1901. Greenidge writes in the Preface that the leading design of this book is to furnish students of Cicero's writings with a clue to the chief legal difficulties which they will meet with in their reading. These difficulties are far more numerous in the sphere of procedure than in that of substantive law; and, as it was quite impossible to write a work of moderate compass which dealt with both branches of the subject, I have thought it better to confine my attention mainly to the former; although, as will easily be understood, it has proved impossible to deal thoroughly with the procedure of the period which I have treated, without touching on many questions of pure law; so intimately are these bound up with the forms in which they were presented to the courts. Partial Contents: Book I. Civil Procedure. Part I. The Courts of the Monarchy and Early Republic; Part II. The Courts of the Ciceronian Period; and Book II. Criminal Procedure.