Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Translations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I On Law -- 2. A Barzunesque View of Cicero: From Giant to Dwarf and Back -- 3. Reading a Dead Man's Mind: Hellenistic Philosophy, Rhetoric and Roman Law -- 4. Law's Nature: Philosophy as a Legal Argument in Cicero's Writings -- Part II On Lawyers -- 5. Cicero and the Small World of Roman Jurists -- 6. 'Jurists in the Shadows': The Everyday Business of the Jurists of Cicero's Time -- 7. Cicero's Reception in the Juristic Tradition of the Early Empire -- 8. Servius, Cicero and the Res Publica of Justinian -- Part III On Legal Practice -- 9. Cicero and the Italians: Expansion of Empire, Creation of Law -- 10. Jurors, Jurists and Advocates: Law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione -- 11. Multiple Charges, Unitary Punishment and Rhetorical Strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic -- 12. Early-career Prosecutors: Forensic Activity and Senatorial Careers in the Late Republic -- Postscript -- Index
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 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. ContributorsBenedikt 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
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