UID:
almahu_9949701575402882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 301 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401384
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne supplements, v. 231
Content:
This is a book about the law and life of Rome-in which contributors respond to John Crook's injunction to 'think like lawyers' by ranging as far as ancient Greece, ancient Persia and modern Denmark to expound their themes and draw comparisons. An opening section focuses on Civil Law, more or less as conventionally conceived, with chapters on the peculium, on municipal law at Irni in Roman Spain, on advisers of Roman provincial governors, and on violent crime. Roman perceptions of the physical and human worlds are the focus of a second section, and comparisons between Greek, Roman and modern ways of thinking about law and government come into the third section. In the final section, contributors argue the history of law and life from refractions of real and imagined Rome.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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CONTRIBUTORS /
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INTRODUCTION /
,
PECULIAR QUESTIONS /
,
DIEM DIFFINDERE: DIE VERTAGUNG IM URTEILSTERMIN NACH DER LEX IRNITANA /
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CONSIUUM PRAESIDIS: ADVISING GOVERNORS /
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ASPECTS OF VIOLENT CRIME IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE /
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MENTAL MAPS: SEEING LIKE A ROMAN /
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AENEID 6.826-35: HOMER AND CAESAR'S GALLIC COMMAND /
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DIDO'S TREASURE AT TACITUS ANNALS 16.1-3 /
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DIRECT DEMOCRACY, ANCIENT AND MODERN /
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ADVOCACY, LOGOGRAPHY AND ERÔTÊSIS IN ATHENIAN LAWCOURTS /
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HERODOTUS AND THE IRANIAN TRADITION /
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PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC AND LEGAL ADVOCACY /
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PRO AND ANTI: THE DIGNITAS OF THE SENATE IN 88 BC /
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THE LAW IS NOT MOCKED: STRAIGHTENING OUT A CROOKED WILL (PHAEDRUS 4.5) /
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THE POMPEIAN TABLETS AND SOME LITERARY TEXTS /
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A NEW INSCRIPTION FROM CARIAN APHRODISIAS /
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ROMAN LAW AND THE LAWS OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS: DECIUS' AND VALERIAN'S PERSECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY /
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THE EXPRESS ROUTE TO HADES /
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JOHN CROOK: BIBLIOGRAPHY /
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INDEX /
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SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
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One paper in German.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Thinking like a lawyer. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002 ISBN 9004124748
Language:
English
Keywords:
Festschriften.
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History.