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Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Plessis, Paul J. du (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. On law
  • A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas
  • Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen
  • Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner
  • Part II. On lawyers
  • Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists / Yasmina Benferhat
  • "Jurists in the shadows" : the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero's time / Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler
  • Cicero's reception in the juristic tradition of the Early Empire / Matthijs Wibier
  • Servius, Cicero and the Res publica of Justinian / Jill Harries
  • Part III. On legal practice
  • Cicero and the Italians : expansion of empire, creation of law / Saskia T. Roselaar
  • Jurors, jurists and advocates : law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De inventione / Jennifer Hilder
  • Multiple charges, unitary punishment and rhetorical strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic / Michael C. Alexander
  • Early-career prosecutors : forensic activity and senatorial careers in the Late Republic / Catherine Steel.