Date of Award

8-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Abstract

When I first undertook to write a thesis upon this subject I thought that, since the Greeks were noted for their politics, there would be material aplenty upon the subject of ancient law but I was destined to disappointment. After some study I found that most of the books upon the subject were founded chiefly upon the ancient classics and not upon proven facts. Bearing this thought in mind I set out to discover just how ancient criminal law did evolve and my discoveries are set out in the following pages.

Perhaps the greatest help was the fairly recent book of Geo. M. Calhoun "The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Greece", a book founded upon the author’s own translations of recently discovered documents. Three other books supplemented this one and gave me a fairly accurate idea of what the ancient law of Greece really was. These are: "Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence" Vol. II by Sir Paul Vinogradoff; "Ancient Law" by Henry S, Maine; and "Greek Constitutional Antiquities" by Dr. Gustav Gilbert.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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