Cicero's law : : rethinking Roman law of the late Republic / / edited by Paul J. du Plessis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Plessis, Paul J. du,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law. <p>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. </p>Contributors<p>Benedikt Forschner • Catherine Steel • Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler • Jan Willem Tellegen • Jennifer Hilder • Jill Harries • Matthijs Wibier • Michael C. Alexander • Olga Tellegen-Couperus • Philip Thomas • Saskia T. Roselaar • Yasmina Benferhat</p>

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.