The article underlines some passages in the archaic sources against the idea that equality (and a vague concept of "democracy") existed already in Homer and that the aim of the first written laws was to restore equality against the abuses of the leading aristocracy.

Some remarks on equality in homer and in the first written laws : response to Robert W. Wallace / L. Pepe - In: Symposion 2015 : Conferências sobre a História do Direito grego e helenístico = Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte / [a cura di] D. Leão, G. Thür. - Prima edizione. - Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016. - ISBN 9783700180524. - pp. 15-27 (( convegno Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte tenutosi a Coimbra nel 2015.

Some remarks on equality in homer and in the first written laws : response to Robert W. Wallace

L. Pepe
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2016

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The article underlines some passages in the archaic sources against the idea that equality (and a vague concept of "democracy") existed already in Homer and that the aim of the first written laws was to restore equality against the abuses of the leading aristocracy.
equality; Homer; first written laws; democracy; aristocracy
Settore IUS/18 - Diritto Romano e Diritti dell'Antichita'
Settore L-ANT/02 - Storia Greca
2016
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