The origins of the law in Homer /

"This book offers an innovative reading of two key texts in Western culture, Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, that have been curiously overlooked in the law and literature canon. The book introduces the Homeric epics as an essential link in a chain of stories about the establishment of the law, and delineates the transition from myth to tragedy as one closely linked to the emergence of an institutionalized legal system." -