000			02716nam a2200397 a 4500
001			0000123434
005			20171002060607.0
006			m u
007			cr cn|||||||||
008			091015s2010 enk sb 001 0 eng
010			_z 2009043211
020			_z9780521110747 (hardback)
020			_z0521110742 (hardback)
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399260
035			_a(OCoLC)646823044
040			_aCaPaEBR _cCaPaEBR
043			_ae-gr---
050	1	4	_aKL4115.A75 _bW649 2010eb
082	0	4	_a340.5/38 _222
100	1		_aWohl, Victoria, _d1966-
245	1	0	_aLaw's cosmos _h[electronic resource] : _bjuridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory / _cVictoria Wohl.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_axiv, 362 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	8		_aThe world of law : oratory and authority -- Legal violence and the limit of justice -- Legal fictions : subjects probable and improbable -- Logos biou : law's life stories -- Civic amnesia and legal memory : remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts -- Family/law : legal genealogies.
520			_a"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"--Provided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aForensic oratory.
650		0	_aRhetoric, Ancient.
650		0	_aLaw, Greek.
650		0	_aLaw _zGreece _zAthens _xHistory _yTo 1500.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aebrary, Inc.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10399260 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
908			_a170314
942	0	0	_cEB
999			_c112583 _d112583