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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'A thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking book. It is always a pleasure to remake Cicero's acquaintance, and this book does not disappoint.' - Craig Anderson, Robert Gordon University, Edinburgh Law Review. 'The essays are very much on the mark set by the editor, and the quality is high. The book is for scholars, but advanced learning methodology or studying the history of Roman law scholarship will find the book useful too.' Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow, Roman Legal Tradition.
Table of ContentsList of contributors; List of abbreviations; A note on translations; 1. Introduction, Paul J. du Plessis; Part 1. On Law; 2. A Barzunesque view of Cicero: from giant to dwarf and back, Philip Thomas; 3. Reading a dead man’s mind: Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric, and Roman law, Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen; 4. Law’s nature: philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero’s writings, Benedikt Forschner; Part 2. On Lawyers; 5. Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists, Yasmina Benferhat; 6. “Jurists in the shadows”: the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero’s time, Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler; 7. Cicero’s reception in the juristic tradition of the early Empire, Matthijs Wibier; 8. Servius, Cicero and the res publica of Justinian, Jill Harries; Part 3. On Legal Practice; 9. Cicero and the Italians: expansion of Empire, creation of law, Saskia T. Roselaar; 10. Jurors, jurists and advocates: law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione, Jennifer Hilder; 11. Multiple charges, unitary punishment, and rhetorical strategy in the quaestiones of the late Roman Republic, Michael C. Alexander; 12. Early career prosecutors: forensic activity and senatorial careers in the late Republic, Catherine Steel; Postscript, Paul J. du Plessis; Index.
