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| Preface | |
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| The Growth of a Legal System | |
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| Judgements in Early Greece | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Primitive disputes | |
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| Kings | |
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| Elders and people | |
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| The trial on the shield of Achilles | |
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| Public opinion | |
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| Magistrates and Juries | |
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| Kings and arkhons | |
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| The Areopagos | |
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| The Eliaia | |
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| Democratic juries | |
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| The allotment of jurors to courts | |
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| The Code of Laws | |
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| Drakon and Solon | |
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| Laws and decrees | |
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| The reinscription of the laws | |
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| Legislation by nomothetai | |
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| Graphe paranomon | |
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| Prosecutors and Cases | |
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| Volunteer prosecutors | |
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| What the laws specified | |
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| Types of case | |
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| Public prosecutors | |
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| Sycophants | |
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| The Scope of the Law | |
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| Personal Status | |
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| Citizens by birth | |
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| Citizenship conferred on aliens | |
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| Outlawry and disfranchisement (atimia) | |
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| Aliens | |
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| Resident aliens (metics) | |
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| Privileged aliens | |
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| Slaves | |
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| Freedmen | |
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| Public slaves | |
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| The Family | |
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| Control of dependants and of an oikos | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Concubinage | |
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| Children | |
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| Succession by legitimate sons | |
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| Heiresses | |
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| Intestate succession by other relatives | |
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| Adoption and wills | |
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| Claiming an inheritance | |
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| Death | |
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| The funeral | |
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| Homicide and the family | |
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| Kinds of homicide | |
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| Procedure in homicide cases | |
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| The use of apagoge for homicide | |
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| Assault and Abuse | |
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| Battery and deliberate wounding | |
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| Sexual offences | |
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| Restriction of liberty | |
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| Slander | |
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| Hybris | |
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| Property | |
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| Property and owners | |
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| Land and buildings | |
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| Mines | |
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| Sale | |
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| Lease | |
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| Loans and security | |
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| Procedures for claiming property | |
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| Theft | |
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| Damage | |
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| Enforcement of property rights | |
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| Life in the Community | |
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| Work | |
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| Trade | |
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| Town regulations | |
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| Military service | |
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| Liturgies | |
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| Debt to the state | |
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| Public officials: dokimasia | |
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| Public officials: apokheirotonia and eisangelia | |
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| Public officials: euthyna | |
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| Corruption and improper participation in public business | |
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| Treason | |
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| Tyranny and subversion of democracy | |
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| Betrayal | |
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| Misleading the people | |
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| Informing (menysis) | |
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| Eisangelia | |
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| The trial of the Arginousai generals | |
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| Execution ordered by the Boule | |
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| Report (apophasis) from the Areopagos | |
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| Religion | |
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| Sacred law | |
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| Festivals | |
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| Impiety | |
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| Atheism | |
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| Legal Proceedings | |
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| Arbitration | |
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| Private arbitration | |
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| Deme and tribe judges | |
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| Public arbitration | |
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| Appeal and annulment of public arbitration | |
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| Barring Legal Action | |
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| Diamartyria | |
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| Paragraphe | |
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| Diamartyria in the fourth century | |
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| Paragraphe and the role of the jury | |
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| Foreigners, Merchants, and the Legal Calendar | |
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| Treaty cases (dikai apo symbolon) | |
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| The polemarch and the xenodikai | |
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| The Athenian Empire | |
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| The legal calendar and the nautodikai | |
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| The mercantile laws and monthly cases | |
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| Trial and Punishment | |
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| Initiation by a magistrate | |
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| Initiation by a private individual | |
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| Preliminary proceedings | |
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| Evidence | |
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| The trial | |
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| Penalties | |
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| Pardon and amnesty | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |