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Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about brothers. She draws together expressions of brotherly love and rivalry around an idealized notion of fraternity: fraternal pietas--the traditional Roman virtue that combined affection and duty in kinship. Romans believed that the relationship between brothers was especi

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought -- 2. Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines -- 3. Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric -- 4. The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire -- Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice -- 5. Law's Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice -- 6. The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic -- 7. Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli -- 8. Tapia's Banquet Hall and Eulogios' Cell: Transfer of Ownership as a Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri -- Part III Economic Realities and Law -- 9. Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy -- 10. Dumtaxat de peculio: What's in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal's Liability -- 11. Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2) -- Part IV Concluding Thoughts -- 12. The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun's Theory of Aspect -- Index