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Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Members of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Prof. Edward Harris

Contact Prof. Edward Harris (email at edward.harris@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Edward Harris is Professor of Ancient History; he has published extensively on Athenian political history and institutions, Greek law and the economy of Ancient Greece. He has published Aeschines and Athenian Politics (New York and Oxford 1995) and Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens (Cambridge and New York 2006). He has co-edited with R. W. Wallace, Transitions to Empire, Essays in Greco-Roman History 360-146 B.C. (Norman OK 1996) and with Lene Rubinstein, The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece (London 2004). He is also translating Demosthenes 20-26 for the series The Oratory of Classical Greece edited by Michael Gagarin (Texas). He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and NEH Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Research Interests

  • Economic History
  • Greek History
  • Greek Law

Publications

Articles: magazine

  • Harris, Edward (2004). Le rôle de l'epieikeia dans les tribunaux athéniens. Revue historique de droit français et étranger 82: 1-14.

Books: authored

Books: edited

Books: sections

  • Harris, Edward (2001). Lycurgus. In Deinarchos, Hypereides, and Lycurgus. Gagarin, Michael Austin Texas: University of Texas Press. 153-218.

Edited works: contributions

Essays in edited volumes

  • Harris, Edward (2007). Did the Athenian Courts Attempt to Achieve Consistency? Oral Tradition and Written Records in the Athenian Administration of Justice. In Politics of Orality. Cooper, Craig Leiden: Brill. 343-370.
  • Cantarella, E. (2007). Who Enforced the Law in Classical Athens? In Symposion 2005. Vienna: Verlag der Oesterreichen Akademie der Wissenschaft. 159-176.
  • Harris, Edward (2006). Antigone the Lawyer or the Ambiguities of Nomos. In The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece. Harris, Edward & Rubinstein, Lene London: Duckworth. 19-56.
  • Harris, Edward (2006). Was all Criticism of Athenian Democracy Anti-Democratic? In Democrazia e Anti-Democrazia. Bultrighini, U. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. 11-24.
  • Harris, Edward (2004). More Thoughts on Open Texture in Athenian Law. In Nomos estudos sobre direito antigo. Leao, D., Rosetti, D. & Fialho, M. Coimbra: 241-263.
  • Harris, Edward (2002). Workshop, Marketplace and Household The Nature of Technical Specialization in Classical Athens and its Influence on Economy and Society. In Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the Economies of Ancient Greece. Cartledge, Paul, Cohen, Edward E. & Foxhall, Lin London: Routledge. 67-99.
  • Harris, Edward (2001). How to Kill in Attic Greek. The Semantics of the Verb apokteinein and their implications for Athenian Homicide Law. In Symposion 1997. Vortraege zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte. Cantarella, E. & Thuer, G Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: 75-87.
  • Harris, Edward (2000). The Authenticity of Andocides De Pace. A Subversive Essay. In Polis and Politics: Studies in Greek HistoryPolitics: Studies in Ancient Greek History,. Flensted-Jensen, Penilla, Nielsen, Thomas & Rubinstein, Lene Copenhagen: 479-506.

Journal papers: academic

  • Harris, Edward (2013). How to Address the Athenian Assembly. The Classical Quarterly 63(1).
  • Canevaro, Mirko & Harris, Edward (2012). The Documents in Andocides' On the Mysteries. Classical Quarterly 62(1): 98-129.
  • Canevaro, Mirko & Harris, Edward (2012). The Documents in Andocides' On the Mysteries. Classical Quarterly 62(1): 000-00.
  • Harris, Edward (2004). Notes on a Lead Letter from the Athenian Agora. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 104.
  • Harris, Edward (2002). Did Solon Abolish Debt-Bondage? Classical Quarterly 52(2): 415-30.
  • (2002). Pheidippides the Legislator. A Note on Aristophanes Clouds. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 140: 3-5.
  • Harris, Edward (2000). Open Texture in Athenian Law. Dike 3: 27-79.
  • Harris, Edward (1999). IG ii3 227 and the So-Called Peace of Epilycus. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126: 123-128.
  • (1999). Notes on the New Grain-Tax Law. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 128: 269-272.
  • Harris, Edward (1997). The Constitution of the Five Thousand. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116: 300.
  • (1994). Demosthenes Loses a Friend and Nausicles Gains a Position. A Prosopographical Note on Athenian Politics after Chaironea. Historia 43: 378-384.
  • (1986). How Often Did he Athenian Assembly Meet? Classical Quarterly 36: 363-377.



GRADUATE STUDENTS

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Physics

Theology and Religion