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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Other Authors: Plessis, Paul J. du (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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520 |a 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 research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic. Contributors. Benedikt Forschner ́⁰O Catherine Steel ́⁰O Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler ́⁰O Jan Willem Tellegen ́⁰O Jennifer Hilder ́⁰O Jill Harries ́⁰O Matthijs Wibier ́⁰O Michael C. Alexander ́⁰O Olga Tellegen-Couperus ́⁰O Philip Thomas ́⁰O Saskia T. Roselaar ́⁰O Yasmina Benferhat 
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