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Series
Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum volume Volume 403
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
31) Brutus
Author
Series
M. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia volume fasc. 4
Publisher
BSB B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft
Pub. Date
1970
Language
Latin
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"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...