Cover 1
Halftitle page 2
Series page 3
Title page 4
Copyright page 5
Contents 6
Contributors 8
Acknowledgements 11
1 Introduction: Roman Law and Latin Literature 12
Part One Literature as Law 34
2 The Force of Literature 36
Life and death 36
Constitution 38
Form and norm, ius and mos 44
Constitutional revisionism 47
Closing thoughts 52
3 Saturnalian Lex: Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis 56
Introduction: Who guards the guards? 56
Trial and punishment 1: Olympus 58
Judging Olympian judges 62
Trial and punishment 2: The underworld 65
The Saturnalian princeps 68
Conclusion: The sovereign narrator 72
4 Iustitium in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile 78
Part I 80
Part II 89
Part Two Literature and the Legal Tradition 98
5 Terence’s Phormio and the Legal Discourse and Legal Profession at Rome 100
6 Beachcombing at the Centumviral Court: Littoral Meaning in the Causa Curiana 117
Cicero’s Causa Curiana 119
Scaevola at the beach 121
The shore in the Roman imagination 122
Synecdoche in Roman legal practice: parts and wholes in property disputes 127
Conclusions 128
7 Marcus Antistius Labeo and the Idea of Legal Literature 136
Introduction 136
Labeo’s biographical tradition: politics, legislation, and the cultivation of libertas 138
Aulus Gellius: Labeo, law and the ideal of the polymath 142
Labeo’s reception among the jurists and the emergence of a juristic canon 148
Conclusions 152
Part Three Literature and Property Law 156
8 Poetry, Prosecution and the Author Function 158
Locating the author 160
Fescennine licence and literary furta 162
Naevius and the Metelli 168
9 The Sea Common to All in Plautus, Rudens: Social Norms and Legal Rules 180
10 Intellectual ‘Property’: Ownership, Possession and Judgment among Civic Artes 200
No trespassing 202
Property and possession / proprietas and possessio 203
Building on Cicero: Knowledge and power in Quintilian and De architectura 207
11 Seneca’s Debt: Property, Self-Possession and the Economy of Philosophical Exchange in the Epistulae Morales 218
Part Four Literature and Justice 236
12 Law in Disguise in the Metamorphoses: The Ambiguous Ecphraseis of Minerva and Arachne 238
Introduction 238
Concluding remarks 254
13 What the Roman Constitution Means to Me: Staging Encounters between US and Roman Law on Equality and Proportionality 260
Act I: Prologue 260
Act II: Reparational reading 262
Act III: ‘We the people’? 263
Act IV: Listening for the silences 264
Act V: Roman manumission 266
Act VI: Naturalizing inequality in the body politic 269
Act VII: The ethnic indifference of Augustan manumission legislation 270
Act VIII: The un-erasability of intention 273
Act IX: When comedy becomes tragedy 274
Act X: Slaying the zombies 276
Bibliography 281
Index 308

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