This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays, written by an international team of experts, deal with procedural and substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is also paid to legal practice in the archaic and Hellenistic eras; areas that offer substantial evidence for legal practice, such as Crete and Egypt; the intersection of law with religion, philosophy, political theory, rhetoric, and drama, as well as the unity of Greek law and the role of writing in law. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among specialists.

编者加加林（Michael Gagarin）,德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授,是古代希腊历史研究的资深专家,出版了《雅典法律中的讲演录》（Speeches from Athenian Law）、《古代克里特岛的法律》（The Laws of Ancient Crete）、《早期希腊法律》（Early Greek Law）、《安提丰讲演录》（Antiphon: The Speeches）等著作20余部,其中以《早期希腊法律》影响最大。

编者科恩（David Cohen）,现为加州大学伯克利分校研究生院教授,夏威夷大学威廉•理查森法学院法学教授,是伯克利战争罪行研究中心的创始董事。主要著作有：《古代雅典的盗窃法》（The Athenian Law of Theft）、《法律、社会和性：古代雅典的道德执行力》（Law, Society and Sexuality: The Enforcement of Morals at Classical Athens）、《古代雅典的法律、暴力和社区》（Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens）等。