The Greek legal system provides us with a wonderful opportunity to study the western legal world. Through study of the Greeks you can learn things such as why we need a legal system, and how a legal system develops. For the Greeks, law was what separated men from animals (and from women) and was the basis of civilization.

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• How does a legal system evolve in a society?
• How did the early Greeks settle their disputes?
• What do we know about the Greeks' early written law?
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