Laura Pepe

Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy), Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Storia del Diritto, Faculty Member

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Professor of Ancient Greek Law in Milan, Università degli Studi.

Areas of interest: Criminal Law, Procedure, Law and Ethics, Law and Literature in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Dossier : Aitia

Dossier : Avant de devenir la notion clé de la réflexion philosophique, aitia désigne, dans son o... more Dossier : Avant de devenir la notion clé de la réflexion philosophique, aitia désigne, dans son origine préphilosophique et juridique, la responsabilité et l’accusation. Ce recueil analyse les différentes facettes de la causalité juridique et philosophique ainsi que leur influence réciproque, à travers un dialogue entre juristes, historiens de la philosophie et du droit, spécialistes de la rhétorique et de la tragédie grecques. Varia : Images, narration et dispositif scénique (vase François ; monuments delphiques). Calendrier religieux spartiate. Écriture antique de l'histoire (Hérodote et Thucydide). Position herméneutique et vérité du texte (Bollack). Significations de l'offrande sacrificielle

Il ventre e nel ventre. Riflessioni sull’infanzia dall’antichità a oggi

Il ventre e nel ventre. Riflessioni sull’infanzia dall’antichità a oggi, 2020

Nomos agraphos, nomos gegrammenos : osservazioni su "leggi non scritte" e "leggi scritte" nell'ordinamento ateniese

Nomos Basileus : la regalità del diritto in Grecia antica, 2017

\uc8 difficile attribuire un significato univoco all\u2019espressione \ua5grafoj n 2moj, che, com... more \uc8 difficile attribuire un significato univoco all\u2019espressione \ua5grafoj n 2moj, che, come la critica ha a pi\uf9 riprese sottolineato, pu\uf2 essere identificato ora con la consuetudine, ora con il complesso delle norme ancestrali che si ritengono avere origine divina, o ancora con la \u2018legge di natura\u2019. Bench\ue9 sia innegabile che questi siano i valori dell\u2019espressione nella maggior parte dei contesti in cui ricorre, credo tuttavia che sia possibile individuare due passi \u2013 peraltro tra i pi\uf9 antichi in cui compare il riferimento alle \u2018leggi non scritte\u2019: Soph., Ant. 454 e ps. Lys., In Andoc. VI.10 \u2013 nei quali il n 2moj \ua5grafoj si presenta con caratteristiche pi\uf9 definite, di \u2018esclusivit\ue0\u2019 e \u2018segretezza\u2019, che lo contrappongono al n 2moj gegramm\u161noj. Il quale n 2moj gegramm\u161noj, a sua volta, non \ue8 semplicemente la \u2018legge affidata alla scrittura\u2019: l\u2019espressione rimanda infatti a un concetto di legge \u2013 pubblicamente approvata, a tutti visibile e a tutti nota \u2013 tipicamente democratico.It is difficult to say exactly, and in an unambiguous way, what \ua5grafoj n 2moj was. Scholars have identified it now with \u2018customs\u2019, now with the complex of ancestral rules of divine origin, now with the law of nature. Even though, as it is undeniable, these are actually the meanings of the phrase in most of the contexts where it appears, I think there are two passages \u2013 among the most ancient in which it occurs: Soph., Ant. 454 e ps. Lys., In Andoc. VI.10 \u2013 where n 2moj \ua5grafoj can be given a more specific definition. In particular, it is an \u2018exclusive\u2019, \u2018secret\u2019 law, hence provided with characters opposite to n 2moj gegramm\u161noj. In turn, n 2moj gegramm\u161noj is not, simply, the \u2018written law\u2019; the phrase implies a typically democratic concept of law \u2013 publicly approved, publicly visible and known to everybody

Athenian ‘Interpreters’ and the Law

Symposion 2017, 2019

Dike : essays on greek law in Honor of Alberto Maffi

La parola ad Antigone

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Some remarks on equality in homer and in the first written laws : response to Robert W. Wallace

Did equality exist in archaic Greece? Robert Wallace's challenging paper aims at demonstratin... more Did equality exist in archaic Greece? Robert Wallace's challenging paper aims at demonstrating that equality was an idea and a practice already in Homer and in the archaic Greek poets; moreover, the first laws were written down in order to guarantee equal justice for everybody, even for the common people. A more careful analysis of the available sources shows however that the general situation cannot be described always in these terms

Il diritto e la leggerezza : sulla prima delle Lezioni Americane di Italo Calvino

How can we use the many definitions of \u201clightness\u201d provided by Italo Calvino in the fir... more How can we use the many definitions of \u201clightness\u201d provided by Italo Calvino in the first of his Six Memos for the Next Millennium to describe ancient law? There are in fact several possible ways to assume that ancient law is \u201clight\u201d. As far as Roman law is concerned, for example, law can be described as \u201clight\u201d both because, in the classical age, it implies a consistent effort of abstraction, and also because, in the archaic period, it shows some clear connections with some \u201clight\u201d social phenomena such as magic and game. In Greek literature, moreover, there is at least one piece of important evidence \u2013 Sophocles\u2019 Antigone \u2013 where divine and unwritten law, ie. law in its highest sense, is associated with lightness, whereas some human written laws are clearly unjust, hence \u201cheavy\u201d

Abortion in ancient Greece

Foreword The topic of abortion in ancient Greece, and particularly in Athens, has been studied at... more Foreword The topic of abortion in ancient Greece, and particularly in Athens, has been studied at length especially in its medical and social dimensions, but has received less consideration in the more specific legal field. One of the most important contributions in this latter perspective is the paper presented at the 1999 Symposion by Stephen Todd, whose interest was concentrated especially on the difficult and controversial interpretation of the fragments of a lost Lysian speech concerning abortion. The purpose of my paper is to reconsider this issue, obviously taking into account Lysias’ fragments that in fact may represent our main legal source on the topic, and focusing my attention on the possible ways abortion could be handled under a legal perspective. My paper will be structured on three themes: first I will deal with the issue of the general perception of abortion in the Greek poleis, and especially in Athens (§ 1); then, I will attempt an overall interpretation of the fr...

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I criteri di imputazione soggettiva dell'omicidio in diritto ateniese

Escribir las leyes, respetar las leyes no escritas

The present article aims to analyze the meaning of the first occurrences of the expressions \u3bd... more The present article aims to analyze the meaning of the first occurrences of the expressions \u3bd\u3cc\u3bc\u3bf\u3c2 \u3b3\u3b5\u3b3\u3c1\u3b1\u3bc\u3bc\u3ad\u3bd\u3bf\u3c2 and \u3bd\u3cc\u3bc\u3bf\u3c2 \u1f04\u3b3\u3c1\u3b1\u3c6\u3bf\u3c2 in order to demonstrate that both, as they appear, have a specific technical value and a political meaning. On the one hand, the analysis of the famous praise of the written law as guarantor of democratic equality in Euripides\u2bc suppliant Women demonstrates that the expression \u3bd\u3cc\u3bc\u3bf\u3c2 \u3b3\u3b5\u3b3\u3c1\u3b1\u3bc\u3bc\u3ad\u3bd\u3bf\u3c2 is not simply limited to the writing of the law (which in itself does not guarantee de- mocracy), but indicates the law written and made public immediately, that is common property, and therefore able to ensure equal treatment of the people who appear before it. On the contrary, the \u1f04\u3b3\u3c1\u3b1\u3c6\u3bf\u3c2 \u3bd\u3cc\u3bc\u3bf\u3c2, far from expressing \u2014as it will occur at a later time\u2014 the \u201ccustom\u201d, the \u201cdivine law\u201d or the \u201claw of nature\u201d, is principally the law that the \u3b3\u3ad\u3bd\u3b7 pretend to be source of law and integral part of the civic order. The conflict, often without solution, between the two orders of \u3bd\u3cc\u3bc\u3bf\u3b9 is illustrated very well in several works in the change of the last decades of the Vth and the beginning of the IVth centuries B.C.: for instance in Sophocles\u2bc antigone, as well as Andocides\u2bc On the Mysteries and its probable reply, the pseudo-Lysian speech against andocides

Atene a processo : il diritto ateniese attraverso le orazioni giudiziarie

Gli antichi Greci non elaborarono mai una “scienza del diritto”, né conobbero figure professional... more Gli antichi Greci non elaborarono mai una “scienza del diritto”, né conobbero figure professionali di “esperti del diritto” in qualche modo paragonabili ai iurisprudentes romani. Questo tuttavia non significa che in Grecia mancò un pensiero giuridico; anzi. Significa soltanto che questo pensiero non venne incentrato su principi astratti; in effetti, esso ebbe come oggetto qualcosa di molto concreto: i nómoi, ossia le leggi. Quelle leggi che, approvate dai cittadini ed esposte nella pubblica piazza, erano parte integrante del tessuto civico e della vita della polis. Quelle leggi, ancora, che – almeno ad Atene, la città che meglio conosciamo – avevano un loro uso pratico nei tribunali, durante i processi, dove esse erano fatte oggetto di analisi, di discussione e di interpretazione nelle molte orazioni pervenuteci. Proprio grazie a queste ultime è possibile osservare e verificare in che modo il diritto veniva applicato, in che modo la legge veniva intesa, quali erano le prassi processuali più tipiche. Dunque, nell’impossibilità di ricostruire un “diritto” sulla base delle categorie a cui la romanistica ci ha abituato, l’esperienza giuridica greca potrà essere osservata da vicino tanto dalle leggi pervenuteci direttamente per via epigrafica, quanto attraverso i discorsi conservati che venivano pronunciati davanti ai giudici in un processo, e che restituiscono un’idea vivida di come i Greci guardavano al diritto, alla legge e alla sua applicazione pratica.

The (ir)relevance of being a mother

Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity, 2018

Some Remarks on Homicide and Criminal Responsibility in Ancient Greece

Dossier : Aitia

In the Homeric poems \u2013 where also begins to emerge the notion that material and causal respo... more In the Homeric poems \u2013 where also begins to emerge the notion that material and causal responsibility should be separated from moral responsibility \u2013 predominates the idea of a strict liability. This is true also as far as homicide is concerned: when a man is killed, no matter whether the killing is intentional or not, the victim\u2019s relatives react with vengeance. With his law on homicide, towards the end of the seventh century BC, the Athenian legislator Drakon is the first to consider mens rea as a criterion to differentiate the penalties. The debate on criminal and, more generally, moral responsibility becomes urgent in the last years of the fifth century, when finally the idea prevails that a merely material and causal agent cannot be considered neither responsible not, consequently, guilty

Processo a un'avvelenatrice: la prima orazione di Antifonte

Index Quaderni Camerti Di Studi Romanistici International Survey of Roman Law, 2012

Athenian women often used herbs to concoct love potions, whose effects could sometimes be lethal.... more Athenian women often used herbs to concoct love potions, whose effects could sometimes be lethal. A notorious case of poisoning is discussed in the first speech of Antiphon, traditionally but maybe erroneously known as \u201cAgainst the stepmother\u201d: a woman, represented in court by his son as his kyrios, is accused of having poisoned his husband, father of the prosecutor, using another woman \u2013 known as \u201cpallake\u300 of Philoneus\u201d \u2013 to administer the drug. The purpose of this paper is to focus on some of the most relevant problems of the speech: what was the charge against the \u2018stepmother\u2019 and, consequently, where did the trial take place? What did the defendant argue against the prosecutor? Is it indeed a weak case for Antipho? What is the relationship between the so called \u2018stepmother\u2019, the victim and the prosecutor? The answers to these questions can also shed some light on the juridical and social position of women in ancient Athens

Osservazioni sulla pronoia in tema di omicidio

Dike, 2009

XIX Symposion of Greek and Hellenistic Law

Dike Rivista Di Storia Del Diritto Greco Ed Ellenistico, Dec 12, 2013

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Observazioni su phonos akousios e phonos dikaios nell'Atene del V e IV secolo A.C

Dike, 2008

I “Sette contro Tebe” e la spartizione dell'eredità di Edipo

Diritto e teatro in Grecia ea Roma, 2007

... Ma nell'epifania del vero significato del sogno anche lo straniero ha rive-lato infine l... more ... Ma nell'epifania del vero significato del sogno anche lo straniero ha rive-lato infine la sua natura reale: egli è stato un liquidatore amaro (crhmatoda…taj pikrÒj, 729 s.), e si è incarnato non già in un individuo, ma nel ferro di Scizia (regione notoriamente ricca di questo metallo ...

Dinamica dello spazio nella guerra dei Sette contro Tebe

Acme: annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell' …, 1999

... Dinamica dello spazio nella guerra dei Sette contro Tebe. Autores: Laura Pepe; Localización: ... more

Dossier : Aitia

Il ventre e nel ventre. Riflessioni sull’infanzia dall’antichità a oggi

Il ventre e nel ventre. Riflessioni sull’infanzia dall’antichità a oggi, 2020

Nomos agraphos, nomos gegrammenos : osservazioni su "leggi non scritte" e "leggi scritte" nell'ordinamento ateniese

Nomos Basileus : la regalità del diritto in Grecia antica, 2017

Athenian ‘Interpreters’ and the Law

Symposion 2017, 2019

Dike : essays on greek law in Honor of Alberto Maffi

La parola ad Antigone

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Some remarks on equality in homer and in the first written laws : response to Robert W. Wallace

Il diritto e la leggerezza : sulla prima delle Lezioni Americane di Italo Calvino

Abortion in ancient Greece

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I criteri di imputazione soggettiva dell'omicidio in diritto ateniese

Escribir las leyes, respetar las leyes no escritas

Atene a processo : il diritto ateniese attraverso le orazioni giudiziarie

The (ir)relevance of being a mother

Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity, 2018

Some Remarks on Homicide and Criminal Responsibility in Ancient Greece

Dossier : Aitia

Processo a un'avvelenatrice: la prima orazione di Antifonte

Index Quaderni Camerti Di Studi Romanistici International Survey of Roman Law, 2012

Osservazioni sulla pronoia in tema di omicidio

Dike, 2009

XIX Symposion of Greek and Hellenistic Law

Dike Rivista Di Storia Del Diritto Greco Ed Ellenistico, Dec 12, 2013

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Observazioni su phonos akousios e phonos dikaios nell'Atene del V e IV secolo A.C

Dike, 2008

I “Sette contro Tebe” e la spartizione dell'eredità di Edipo

Diritto e teatro in Grecia ea Roma, 2007

Dinamica dello spazio nella guerra dei Sette contro Tebe

Acme: annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell' …, 1999

... Dinamica dello spazio nella guerra dei Sette contro Tebe. Autores: Laura Pepe; Localización: ... more

Tagungsbericht vom XX. Symposion of Greek and Hellenistic Law, Dike 18 (2015)

by Laura Pepe and Philipp Scheibelreiter

Il ventre e nel ventre Riflessioni sull'infanzia dall'antichità a oggi PROGRAMMA ORE 10 -SALUTI ISTITUZIONALI

Convegno interdisciplinare con interventi di esperti in campo giuridico, storico, antropologico, ... more

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POSTER Conference 'Deformitas e diritto. Letture antiche e moderne dell'alterità corporea' (Firenze 11-4-2019)

by Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Yiannis Panidis, Laura Pepe, and Luca Baratta

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Atene a processo. Il diritto ateniese attraverso le orazioni giudiziarie

Gli eroi bevono vino. Il mondo antico in un bicchiere

Il mondo antico visto attraverso il vino, con la cultura di cui esso era portatore e l'identità c... more

Phonos. L'omicidio da Draconte all'età degli oratori

Partendo da un'innovativa interpretazione della legge di Draconte, il volume analizza la discipli... more

Dike. Essays on Greek Law in Honor of Alberto Maffi, edited by Lorenzo Gagliardi and Laura Pepe, Milano: Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019, pp. XX-386 [ISBN 978-88-28-80303-4].

by Lorenzo Gagliardi and Laura Pepe

The essays collected in this volume are meant to honor Alberto Maffi, two years after his retirem... more The essays collected in this volume are meant to honor Alberto Maffi, two years after his retirement. They are all on Greek law, the subject to which professor Maffi has devoted most of his life and scholarship. The papers, whose authors are among the most eminent scholars from all over the world, deal with the main topics of ancient Greek law (private law, criminal law, constitutional law), and range from archaic and hellenistic Greece to Egypt in Roman times. The title of this Festschrift, Dike, celebrates the first international journal in Greek and Hellenistic law that Alberto Maffi established with Eva Cantarella.

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