Roman Law and Latin Literature

ISBN-13: 9781350276635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Ioannis Ziogas; Erica M. Bexley

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Roman Law and Literature (Ioannis Ziogas Durham University, UK and Erica Bexley Durham University, UK) PART I: Literature as Law 2. The Force of Literature (Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago, USA) 3. Saturnalian Lex: Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis (Erica Bexley, Durham University, UK) 4. Iustitium in Lucan’s Bellum Civile (Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, UK) PART II: Literature and Legal Tradition 5. Terence’s Phormio and the Legal Discourse and Legal Profession at Rome (Jan Felix Gaertner, University of Cologne, Germany) 6. Beachcombing at the Centumviral Court: Littoral Meaning in the Causa Curiana (John Dugan, University at Buffalo, USA) 7. Marcus Antistius Labeo and the Idea of Legal Literature (Matthijs Wibier, University of Kent, UK) Part III: Literature and Property Law 8. Poetry, Prosecution, and the Author Function (Nora Goldschmidt, Durham University, UK) 9. The Sea Common to All in Plautus, Rudens: Social Norms and Legal Rules (Thomas A. J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University, USA) 10. Intellectual 'Property': Ownership, Judgment, and Possession among Civic Artes (John Oksanish, Wake Forest University, USA) 11. Seneca’s Debt: Property, Self-Possession, and the Economy of Philosophical Exchange in the Epistulae Morales (Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto, Canada) Part IV: Literature and Justice 11. Law in Disguise in the Metamorphoses: The Ambiguous Ecphrasis of Minerva and Arachne (Stella Alekou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus) 12. What the Roman Constitution Means to Me: Staging Encounters between US and Roman Law on Equality and Proportionality (Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, USA) Notes Bibliography Index