CLCV 3201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Great Rhetra, Ancient Law, Municipal Law
9 May 2016
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We have two types of laws: legislative and judicial. Legislative is the right to create a law while judicial is when you interpret laws. In antiquity we have two types of laws the namos (or namoi in plural) which are intended to be more permanent and central laws to the state that are harder to change. The other type of law is known as a psephismata (psephisma means pebble) and that refers to the process of placing a pebble into a jar to indicate either yes or not depending on something. Another translation for this is decrees, the psephismata. Military (spartan soldiers must by law go into war with all their armour) Sacred law (this is important because offending the god can cause them to withdraw support and thus negatively affect the state) There is a distinction between private and public crimes (public law refers to all crimes that can affect the state which includes religious law).
