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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Citations of ancient authors are based on the Oxford
Classical Texts or, where these are not available, on the
Teubner texts. Citations from the fragments of Solon and
Theognis are taken from E. Diehl, Anthologia Lyrica Graeca,
3rd ed. (Leipzig, 1954-55), of Hesiod from R. Merkelbach
and M. L. West, eds. Fragmenta Hesiodea (Oxford, 1967),
of the Pre-Socratic philosophers from H. Diels and W.
Kranz, DieFragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th ed. (Berlin,
1951-52), of the tragedians from A. Nauck, Tragicorum
Graecorum Fragmenta,
2nd ed. (Hildesheim, 1964), of in-
scriptions from E. Schwyzer, Dialectorum Graecarum
Exempla Epigraphica Potiora
(Leipzig, 1923), M. N. Tod,
A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, 2nd ed., Vol.
2 (Oxford, 1948), from C. D. Buck, The Greek Dialects
(Chicago, 1955), and from R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A
Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the
Fifth Century
B.C. (Oxford, 1969), and of papyri from Greek
Literary Papyri,
ed. D. L. Page, Vol. 1 (London and Cam-
bridge, Mass., 1942).

The following is a selection of works helpful for further
study of Greek concepts of law: G. Busolt and H. Swoboda,
Griechische Staatskunde, 2 vols. (Munich, 1920-26); V.
Ehrenberg, DieRechtsidee im frühen Griechentum (Leipzig,
1921); H. Fränkel, Wege und Formen frühgriechischen
Denkens
(Munich, 1960); F. Heinimann, Nomos und Physis
(Basel, 1945); R. Hirzel, Themis, Dike und Verwandtes
(Leipzig, 1907); J. W. Jones, The Law and Legal Theory
of the Greeks
(Oxford, 1956); E. Laroche, Histoire de la
racine NEM- en grec ancien
(Paris, 1949); K. Latte, “Der
Rechtsgedanke im archaischen Griechentum,” Antike und
Abendland,
2 (1946), 63-76; Albin Lesky, “Wertdenken in
der frühen griechischen Dichtung,” Gesammelte Schriften,
ed. W. Kraus (Bern and Munich, 1966), pp. 479-92; M.
Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian De-
mocracy
(Oxford, 1969); T. A. Sinclair, A History of Greek
Political Thought
(London, 1951); H. Vos, ΘΕΜΙΣ (Assen,
1956); E. Wolf, Griechisches Rechtsdenken (Frankfurt,
1950-).

MARTIN OSTWALD

[See also Constitutionalism; Democracy; Justice; Law, An-
cient Roman, Concept of, Natural
; Right; State.]