AHMA Participating Faculty
David J. Cohen, J.D. (UCLA, 1972), Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1981)
Professor of Rhetoric and Classics
Ancient Rhetoric, Classical Greek Law, Political and Legal Theory
djcohen@berkeley.edu
Selected Works:
Theft in Athenian Law, 1983
"Roman Law, Part II," Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung, Rom. Abt., 1985
"The Theodicy of Aeschylus: Justice and Tyranny in the Oresteia," Greece and Rome, 1986
"The Legal Status and Political Role of Women in Plato's Laws," Revue International des Droites de l'Antiquite, 1987
"Separation Seclusion, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens," Greece and Rome, 1986
Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens, 1991
"Sexuality, Violence and the Athenian Law of Hubris," Greece and Rome, 1991
"The Augustan Law on Adultery: The Social and Cultural Context," in The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present, 1991
Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens, 1994