Origins of Western Law - Professor McElwee

Texts:

Aeschylus, Aeschylus II: The Oresteia,  U of Chicago, 978-0-226-31147-0Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That, New World Library, 1-57731-202-3
Michael Gagarin, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, Cambridge, 978-0521521598
Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus, Antigone, Oedeipus at Colonus, U of Chicago, 978-0-226-31151-7
Paul Woodruff, First Democracy, Oxford, 978-0195304541
Aristophanes, Clouds, Wasps, Birds, Hackett, 978-0-87220-360-0

Students should be sure to buy the Aeschylos and Sophokles texts. We will refer to line numbers in the texts. If they have alternate texts they will be lost.

First Assignments:

Chapter 2 in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law and Plato handout.