Michael Gagarin

Biographic Data

ID1019592
NAMEMichael Gagarin
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEGagarin
SIGNATUREGAGARIN M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS63
TOTAL CITATIONS89
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Democratic Law in Classical Athens

    Michael GagarinBOOKDemocratic Law in Classical Athens2020

    The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants' rhetorical performances. Did this make it nothing more than a rhetorical contest judged by largely uneducated citizens that had nothing to do with law, a criticism that some, including Plato, have made? Michael Gagarin argues to the contrary, contending that…

  • The Legislation of Demetrius of Phalerum and the Transformation of Athenian Law

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERDemetrius of Phalerum2018

    It is a curious irony that Athenian law, which is so well documented during the century from ca. 420-320 BC, becomes virtually invisible in the Hellenistic period. Scholars who have sought to explain the political tenor of Demetrius' legislation have seldom asked how the legal system actually functioned under Demetrius. The new sumptuary legislation reduced competition among the rich in another area; and although the details of Ferguson's specula…

  • Women’s Voices in Attic Oratory

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERMaking Silence Speak2018

  • Ancient Greek Law

    Michael Gagarin, Heikki Pihlajamäki et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of European Legal…2018References: 2

    This chapter gives an overview of law in ancient Greece. After discussing the unity of Greek law and scholarship on Greek law, it reviews the evidence for law in Gortyn (in Crete), including the Gortyn Law Code, in Sparta, and at greater length in Athens, which is best documented. Athens had a highly democratic legal system. Legislation was enacted by an Assembly open to all citizens, laws were written and publicly displayed, plaintiffs and defen…

  • Observations on the Great Rhetra

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERSymposion 20112017

  • The Laws of Ancient Crete c.650–400 BCE

    Michael Gagarin, Paula PerlmanBOOKLaws of Ancient Crete, C. 650-400…2016

  • Critias, c. 460–403 BCE

    Michael GagarinCHAPTEROxford Classical Dictionary2016Cited by: 1

  • Laws of Ancient Crete, C. 650-400 BCE

    Michael Gagarin, Paula PerlmanBOOKLaws of Ancient Crete, C. 650-400…2015

  • Early Greek Legal Thought

    Open AccessMichael Gagarin, Paul WoodruffCHAPTERTreatise of Legal Philosophy and…2015

  • Eikosarguments in Athenian forensic oratory

    Open AccessMichael GagarinCHAPTERProbabilities, Hypotheticals, and…2014

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  • Rhetoric and Law

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical…2014

    This chapter reviews the mutual influence of rhetoric and law on one another from our earliest evidence in the Homeric poems through the Hellenistic period. Law influenced rhetoric in that a forensic context was crucial for the “invention” of rhetoric in Sicily, for the rhetorical advances made by the sophists, especially Gorgias, and for the assessments of rhetoric by Plato and Aristotle. On the other hand, rhetoric played a large role in litiga…

  • Law and Religion in Early Greece

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERLaw and Religion in the Eastern…2013

    This chapter proposes two theories about the relationship between law and religion in early Greece. First, from the beginning, law in Greece never manifested itself as part of a general collection of diverse rules in which religious, legal, moral, and other rules were gathered together without distinction. Law was always an institution in its own right. Second, laws, clearly designated as such, included rules about religious matters, but primaril…

  • Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

    Homerus ca v8 Jh, Quentin Skinner et al.BOOKEarly Greek Political Thought…2012

  • Solon

    Michael GagarinARTICLEThe Classical World2012

    Reviewed by: Solon: Das Gesetzeswerk—Fragmente: Übersetzung und Kommentar Michael Gagarin Eberhard Ruschenbusch. Solon: Das Gesetzeswerk—Fragmente: Übersetzung und Kommentar. Historia Einzelschriften, 215. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Pp. 168. €46.00. ISBN 978-3-515-09709-3. In 1966 Eberhard Ruschenbusch published a short volume (Σόλωνος Νόμοι) containing the testimonia and fragments of the laws of Solon, together with almost sixty page…

  • Demosthenes, Speeches 1–17

    Michael Gagarin, Jeremy TrevettBOOKDemosthenes, Speeches 1–172011

  • Law

    Open AccessMichael GagarinCHAPTER2011

  • Homicide

    Open AccessMichael GagarinCHAPTER2011

  • Speeches from Athenian Law

    Michael GagarinBOOKSpeeches from Athenian Law2011

    This is the sixteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluab…

  • The Athenian Law against Hybris

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERArktouros2011

  • Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete

    Michael GagarinCHAPTERSacred words2011

    In this paper, the author takes a closer look at the writing of laws in the archaic period, and examines whether sacred laws were treated any differently from secular laws. Why sacred laws were written and displayed in certain public areas, who authorized them to be written down and publicly displayed, and who would have been the audience for them, are certain questions that are dealt with. Evidence is drawn primarily from the island of Crete, wh…

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

    Michael Gagarin, Nicolle E HirschfeldBOOKThe Oxford Encyclopedia of…2010

    The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome offers a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries. The Encyclopedia brings the work of the best classical scholars, archaeologists, and historians together in an easy-to-use…

  • II. Serfs and Slaves at Gortyn

    Michael GagarinARTICLEZeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung…2010Cited by: 2

  • Writing Greek Law

    Open AccessMichael GagarinBOOKWriting Greek Law2008

    The use of writing in the development of Greek law was unique. In this comparative study Professor Gagarin shows the reader how Greek law developed and explains why it became so different from the legal systems with which most legal historians are familiar. While other early communities wrote codes of law for academic or propaganda purposes, the Greeks used writing extensively to make their laws available to a relatively large segment of the comm…

  • Rational Argument in Early Athenian Oratory

    Open AccessMichael GagarinARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2007Cited by: 1

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law

    Open AccessMichael Gagarin, David CohenBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to…2005

    This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays, written by an international team of experts, deal with procedural and substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is also paid to legal practice in the archaic and He…