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This article aims at sketching the prima facie "paradoxical" legal status of "slaves" in Roman law. Hence, it deals with principles and rules directed to regulate two paradigmatic and highly relevant areas of economic life, i.e. sale and agency. Both shared the fundamental presence of servi or mancipia, conceived at times as mere objects, at times as real individuals. On the one hand, according to non-Roman conceptions (that consider slavery per se a liminal and, thereby, indefinable institution), the law concerning serviles personae would represent such a contradiction by merging the Aristotelian categories of bios and zoe. On the other hand, pre-classical and classical Roman law, adhering to a functional and wide notion of legal persona, and embodying a status-system, transcends any apparent inconsistency between property law and business law.

In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses in particular on the later Republic and early centuries of the Roman Empire. The volume is designed as an introductory work, with brief chapters that will be accessible to college students with little knowledge of legal matters or Roman antiquity. The text is also free of technical language and Latin terminology. It can be used in courses on Roman law, Roman history, or comparative law, but it will also serve as a useful reference for more advanced students and scholars

"This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite their being periods of massive tectonic shifts in the legal and literary landscapes, the Republic and Empire of Rome have not until now been the focus of interdisciplinary study in this field. This volume brings vital new material to the attention of the law and literature movement. An interdisciplinary approach is at the heart of this volume: specialists in Roman law rarely engage in constructive dialogue with specialists in Latin literature and vice versa but this volume bridges that divide. It shows how literary scholars are eager to examine the importance of law in literature or the juridical nature of Latin literature, while Romanists are ready to embrace the interactions between literary and legal discourse. This collection capitalizes on the opportunity to open a fruitful dialogue between scholars of Latin literature and Roman law and thus makes a major, much needed contribution to the growing field of law and literature"

Includes the author's "Christianity and the Roman government," with six additional essays. cf. Pref. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Christianity and the Roman government.--Legions in the Pannonian rising.--Movements of the legions.--The provincial "concilia."--Imperium consulare or proconsulare.--Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius, on Galba and Otho.--A Bodleian ms. of Pliny's letters to Trajan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Spanning the time from the 1st century BCE to the 400s CE, this volume highlights the multifaceted interactions between Greco-Roman historiographical texts and their readers. Its contributions focus on the testimonies offered by ancient readers themselves and they engage in close readings of the historiographical works to explore how these texts involve their audiences and stimulate a fascinating range of intellectual and affective reactions.