2007-01-10 13:58:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Code of Hammurabi is a good start with laws evolving as time passed.
Also Solon, The lawmaker of Athens:
Solon repealed the laws of Dracon, which punished even small offenses with death, so it was said that the laws of Dracon [codified 621 B.C.] were written in blood instead of ink. When someone asked Dracon why he had made his laws so severe, he answered: "We need the death penalty to prevent small crimes, and for bigger ones I can't think of any greater punishment." Solon reserved the death penalty for murder and manslaughter.
2007-01-10 14:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by ipygmalion 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would have to be a little more specific about ancient laws. Speaking broadly, and with experience mostly in ancient European civilizations, I would sat that usually some mythological hero founds a city and establishes laws. With the slow mutation of the civilization through time, laws also tend to change
2007-01-10 22:05:51 · answer #2 · answered by laetitia_gaudiumque 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laws change with generations and governments through out history , but one law that has not changed ever since who knows when , is the low of murder crime , or basically is a crime to kill some one else ....
2007-01-10 22:10:51 · answer #3 · answered by young old man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hammurabi's Law (Babylon) is a good start for researching codified ancient law.
2007-01-10 22:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by parrotsandgrog 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋