Table of Contents
Introduction; i. Women and the Legal System of the Athenian Democracy: Why is it important?; ii. The intersection of the law with the lives of women; iii. Sources; iv. Modern literature; PART 1: Cases involving women litigants; Lysias, To Antigenes, On the Abortion; Lysias, On the daughter of Antiphon; Hypereides, Against Aristagora aprostasiou, (two speeches); Deinarchos, That the daughters of Aristophon are not heiresses; or, Diamartyria that the daughter of Aristophon is not an heiress; Pericles, In Defense of Aspasia, for Impiety; [Demosthenes] 40, To Boiotos on his mother’s dowry; Hypereides, Against Demetria, apostasiou; Lysias, Against Diogeiton: A mother’s compelling speech; Deinarchos, Synegoria to Hegelochos, for the Epikleros, or Against Hegelohos, Synegoria on behalf of the Epikleros; Deinarchos, Against Hedyle, apostasiou; Lysias, To Lais; [Deinarchos], Dispute between the priestess of Demeter and the Hierophant; Lycurgus, On the Priestess; Deinarchos, For an Epikleros: For the Daughter of Iophon; Euboulides, Against the sister of Lakedaimonios, for Impiety; Hypereides, In Defense of Mika; Apollodoros, Against Neaira; Lysias, For Nikomache; Menekles, Against Ninos the Priestess, for Impiety; Lysias, On the daughter of Onomakles; Isaios 3, On the Estate of Pyrrhos; Lysias, Against Philonides for Rape; Hypereides, In Defense of Phryne; Lysias, On the daughter of Phrynichos; Isaios , To Satyros, on behalf of the epikleros; Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother; Demosthenes, Against Theoris, for Impiety; Hypereides, To Timandra; PART 2: Chapter 1. Women’s participation in the Athenian justice system; 1.1. Women’s access to the various layers of the justice system; 1.2 Representation versus exclusion; 1.3. Not all women are the same; 1.4. Conclusions; Chapter 2. Judicial processes involving women; 2.1 An overview of processes and procedures in the Athenian Justice System; 2.2. Women and politics; 2.3. Citizenship and immigration violations; 2.4. Prosecutions for religious offenses; 2.5. Economic disputes; 2.6. Violent crime; 2.7. Personal responsibility before the law; Chapter 3. Gender as a factor in the construction of the argument; 3.1. Gender stereotypes as a factor in trials involving both men and women: An introduction; 3.2 The dutiful wife and mother; 3.3. The indecent women of Athens; 3.4. The poisoner and the witch; 3.5. Images of the body and sexuality; 3.6. A woman with a past; 3.7. Conclusions; Chapter 4. Women’s Empowerment, Social Groups and the Justice System; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The Citizen woman in the Athenian polis; 4.3. The Metic woman in the Athenian polis; 4.4. The working women of Athens: legal implications; 4.5. Conclusions; Chapter 5. Conclusions; Appendix: The main laws affecting the lives of Athenian women; The law on marriage; The law on the epidikasia of citizen and metic epikleroi; The law on the epidikasia of a poor epikleros; The Periclean citizenship law; The laws prohibiting mixed marriages between Athenians and non-Athenians; The law on divorce; The laws on adultery affecting women; The laws on succession and inheritance directly affecting women; The social network: the laws requiring of the archon to protect women, children and orphans from abuse of their person or property; All priests and priestesses are equally responsible under the law; Select Bibliography.
