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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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.