Jėgos Teisė Ir Teisės Jėga Formuojantis Graikų Poliui
The Right of Power and the Power of Law during Greek Polis Formation

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the formation and development of the legal consciousness of Ancient Greece. It presents two autonomous but closely interrelated phenomena of Greek civilization – power and law and analyzes their interplay in the course of history. Each epoch of Ancient Greek history had its own peculiar dominating form of government. During the times of Polis formation, the Greeks finally chose the model of society based on horizontal relations and tried the forms of government – aristocracy and timocracy -- which were legitimized by the principles of order and justice typical of given historical period. The symbols of those principles were goddesses Dike and Eunomia.

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