 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Legal Texts
Contents
- General
- Ancient Near East
- Greece and Hellenism
- Rome: Republic and Empire
- Other Ancient Cultures
Ancient Legal Links
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Ancient Legal History:
Discussions
- 2ND Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient
Law [At McMaster] [Internet Archive backup here]
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Ancient Near East
Sumeria (c. 3100-c. 2000 BCE)
Akkadia (c.2350-2200 BCE)
Babylonia (c.2000-1600 BCE)
Kassites and Hittites (c.1600-717 BCE)
Assyria (c.1350- 612 BCE)
Chaldea/Neo-Babylonia (612-539 BCE)
Carthage: The Punic Empire
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Egypt
Gender and Sexuality
- For Women: WEB Diotima: Ward Texts [All now via Internet Acrhive]
- Will of Prince Nikaure, son of King Khafre (ca. 2600 B.C.)
- The Wills of Two Brothers and the Inheritance of One Brother's Wife (ca. 1900 B.C.)
- Dispute over Property between a Mother and Daughter
- Marriage Agreement between a Bridegroom and his Father-in-law
- A Wife Wins a Dispute over Her Inheritance
- A Woman Charges her Husband with Wife Abuse
- A Father's Promise to his Daughter in Case of Divorce
- A Woman Asks an Oracle to Settle a dispute over land
- The Will of Amonkhau in Favor of His Second Wife (ca. 1100 B.C.)
- A Daughter's Double Inheritance of Family Property (13th c. B.C.)
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Persia
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People of Israel
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Greece
- Athens
- Sparta
- Codes and Practices
- Philosophical/Literary Discussion
- Sophocles: Antigone 442 BCE [At this Site, formerly ERIS]
See 2ND Study Guide [Was At Brooklyn College, now Internet Archive]
- Sophocles:
Antigone [At Johnston Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sophocles: Antigone 442
BCE [Was At Diotima, now Internet Archive]
A much more modern translation, with extensive annotation.
- Sophocles: Antigone, translation and notes by Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett [At Diotima] [Archive version here]
- Plato: The Republic [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text] - theory of forms/ideas, the ideal state
- Plato:
The Republic [At
MIT][Full Text][Chapter length files]
See 2ND Study Guide [Was At Brooklyn College, now Internet Archive]
- (ps.-?) Plato: Seventh Letter: To the Relatives and Friends of Dion, [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- Plato: The Laws, c. 360 BCE,
complete [At MIT]
- Aristotle: Poetics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text]
- Aristotle: Poetics [At
MIT][Chapter length files]
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The Hellenistic World
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Rome
Foundations
- Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): The Roman Way of Declaring War, c.
650 BCE, from History of Rome I.34 [At this Site]
- The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE
selections, [At CSUN] [Internet Archive version here] and in Latin [At
Bibliotheca Augustana]
- The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections [At this Site]
- Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Rome at the End of the
Punic Wars [History, Book 6] [At this Site]
Includes an extended comparison of Rome and Carthage.
- Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE) Book 6.11-18: The Constitution of the Roman Republic[Was At Saskatchewan, now Internet Archive]
- Chart: Roman Government: Checks and
Balances [From Polybius, Histories, 6]
- Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Extensive Selections,
[At Internet Archive, from Princeton]
Book I, sections 1-6 , 14 , 17 , 59 , 63-64; Book VI. 1-42, 53-58; Book X. 2-3; Book XXXI.
22-30
- 2ND The Concepts of Fides and Virtus [At CSUN] [Internet Archive version here]
- 2ND The Republican Constitution: Outline [Modern Account] [Was at Reed, now here]
Civil Wars and Revolution
- Cicero (105-43 BCE)
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Laws, excerpts from Books II
and III [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic, excerpts from
Book I [At this Site]
- The Roman Candidate, 64, 54 BCE [At this Site]
Quintus Cicero, Letter to His Brother Marcus Cicero, on the problems of running
for office.
The Principate to 192 CE
- Augustus
- The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 14-68 CE
- The Flavian Emperors 69-96 CE
- The Adoptive Emperors 96-192 CE
Later Roman Law
- WEB See the Medieval Legal History page, at
the Medieval Sourcebook, for texts on late Roman law and the Corpus
Juris Civilis.
- The Theodosian Code trans Clyde Pharr. Extensive excerpts [At Googe Books] [Internet Archive version here]
- Citizenship
- Egypt
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Late Antiquity
Military Revolution and Government
The "Triumph" of the Church
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India
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China
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Japan
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NOTES:
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was
4/8/1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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