Cicero's Law Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic
by du Plessis, Paul J.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2018-03-01
Publisher(s): Edinburgh University Press
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
A note on translations
1. Introduction
Paul J. du Plessis
On Law
2. A Barzunesque view of Cicero: from giant to dwarf and back
Philip Thomas
3. Reading a dead man's mind: Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric, and Roman law
Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen
4. Law's nature: philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings
Benedikt Forschner
On Lawyers
5. Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists
Yasmina Benferhat
6. "Jurists in the shadows": the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero's time
Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler
7. Cicero's reception in the juristic tradition of the early Empire
Matthijs Wibier
8. Servius, Cicero and the res publica of Justinian
Jill Harries
On Legal Practice
9. Cicero and the Italians: expansion of Empire, creation of law
Saskia T. Roselaar
10. Jurors, jurists and advocates: law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione
Jennifer Hilder
11. Multiple charges, unitary punishment, and rhetorical strategy in the quaestiones of the late Roman Republic
Michael C. Alexander
12. Early-career prosecutors: forensic activity and senatorial careers in the late Republic
Catherine Steel
Postscript
Paul J. du Plessis
Index
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