Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens' juridical discourse.

Victoria Wohl is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. Her previously published work includes Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (2002) and Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (1998).

Preface: before the law; Introduction: the rhetoric of law; Part I. The Boundaries of Legal Discourse: 1. The world of law: oratory and authority; 2. Legal violence and the limit of justice; Part II. The Legal Subject: 3. Legal fictions: subjects probable and improbable; 4. Logos biou: law's life stories; Part III. Time, Memory, Reproduction: Law's Past and Future: 5. Civic amnesia and legal memory: remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts; 6. Family/law: legal genealogies; Conclusion: the paradigmatic law.