Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • A Note about Transliteration
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Rhetoric and Realia
  • Roman Law in the Greek World
  • The Form of the Trial Scene
  • I. CHARITON, CALLIRHOE
  • In the Shadow of the Lex Julia de adulteriis coercendis?
  • Trial 1. A Crime of Passion: Uxoricide
  • Trial 2. Pirates of the Mediterranean: Tomb Robbery and Kidnapping
  • Trial 3. A Hellene in the King's Court: Malfeasance
  • Trial 4. Trial by Battle: Bigamy
  • Conclusion
  • II. ACHILLES TATIUS, LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON
  • Legal Pluralism in Roman Alexandria
  • Trial 5. Facts Not in Evidence: Murder
  • Trial 6. Iudicium Deorum: Sacrilege
  • Conclusion
  • III. HELIODORUS, AETHIOPICA
  • Patria Potestas after the Antonine Constitution
  • Trial 7. In the Name of the Father: Patricide
  • Trial 8. The Fury's Whip: Entrapment
  • Trial 9. Innocents Abroad: Poisoning
  • Trial 10. A Royal Paternity Suit: Infanticide
  • Trial 11. Lost and Found: Abduction
  • Conclusion
  • GENERAL CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Texts, Translations, and Commentaries
  • Works Cited
  • INDICES
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.