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| Preface | |
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| Law, Justice, and Legislation in Early Greece | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perspectives on Early Greek Law and Justice, Ancient and Modern | |
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| The Organization of the Argument | |
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| Approaches to Early Greek Legal Thought and Practice | |
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| The Problem of Athenian Historiography for Early Greek Law | |
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| The Moral Authority of Epic | |
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| Greek Adjudication in Context: Legal Cultures and Legal Anthropology | |
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| Legal Culture in Greece before Written Law | |
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| An Overview of Dispute Settlement before Written Law | |
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| Automatic Self-Help and the Limits of a Normativist Approach | |
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| Disputes concerning Clearly Disapproved Behavior (A) | |
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| Serious Disagreements over Courses of Action or Approved/Disapproved Behavior (B) | |
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| Disputes Arising from Personal Challenges, Threats, or Other Verbal Insults (C) | |
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| Disputes Involving Seizure of Property Leading to Loss of Status or Dishonor (D) | |
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| Seizure or Loss of Property Involving a Sense of �Breach of Contract� (E) | |
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| Conclusions on the Nature of Early Greek Dispute Settlement | |
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| Judicial Equality, Literacy, and Written Law | |
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| The Problem of Demands for Judicial Equality | |
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| Literacy in the Greek World and the Appearance of Written Law | |
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| Memory, Malfeasance, and Elite Adjudication under Written Law | |
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| Elites and the World of the Emerging Polis | |
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| Legal Cultures and Social Change: The Geometric Household and Homeric Reciprocity | |
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| Demographics, Oikoi, and the Disembedded Economy | |
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| Putting Together the Polis: Synoikismos and the Elite | |
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| Cohesion or Conflict?: Exclusion, Inclusion, and Tyranny | |
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| Aristocratic Anxieties and the Writing of Laws | |
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| Rituals, Reciprocity, and the Elites | |
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| The Movement of Property in the Early Polis | |
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| Retributive Murder, Funerary Cult, and Ostentation | |
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| Political Office and Magisterial Misconduct | |
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| Conclusion: Writing and Authority | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |