This is a book about the law and life of Rome—in which contributors respond to John Crook's injunction to 'think like lawyers' by ranging as far as ancient Greece, ancient Persia and modern Denmark to expound their themes and draw comparisons. An opening section focuses on Civil Law, more or less as conventionally conceived, with chapters on the peculium, on municipal law at Irni in Roman Spain, on advisers of Roman provincial governors, and on violent crime.
Roman perceptions of the physical and human worlds are the focus of a second section, and comparisons between Greek, Roman and modern ways of thinking about law and government come into the third section. In the final section, contributors argue the history of law and life from refractions of real and imagined Rome.

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Preliminary Material
Author: PAUL MCKECHNIE
Pages: i–ix
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CONTRIBUTORS
Author: PAUL MCKECHNIE
Pages: xi–xii
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INTRODUCTION
Author: Paul McKechnie
Pages: 1–4
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PECULIAR QUESTIONS
Author: David Johnston
Pages: 5–13
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DIEM DIFFINDERE: DIE VERTAGUNG IM URTEILSTERMIN NACH DER LEX IRNITANA
Author: Joseph Georg Wolf
Pages: 15–41
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CONSIUUM PRAESIDIS: ADVISING GOVERNORS
Author: Paul Weaver
Pages: 43–62
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ASPECTS OF VIOLENT CRIME IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Author: Keith Hopwood
Pages: 63–80
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MENTAL MAPS: SEEING LIKE A ROMAN
Author: C.R. Whittaker
Pages: 81–112
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AENEID 6.826–35: HOMER AND CAESAR'S GALLIC COMMAND
Author: W.R. Barnes
Pages: 113–129
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DIDO'S TREASURE AT TACITUS ANNALS 16.1–3
Author: P. Murgatroyd
Pages: 131–133
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DIRECT DEMOCRACY, ANCIENT AND MODERN
Author: M.H. Hansen
Pages: 135–149
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ADVOCACY, LOGOGRAPHY AND ERÔTÊSIS IN ATHENIAN LAWCOURTS
Author: S.C. Todd
Pages: 151–165
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HERODOTUS AND THE IRANIAN TRADITION
Author: J.S. Sheldon
Pages: 167–180
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PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC AND LEGAL ADVOCACY
Author: R. Godfrey Tanner
Pages: 181–190
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PRO AND ANTI: THE DIGNITAS OF THE SENATE IN 88 BC
Author: A.M. Stone
Pages: 191–212
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THE LAW IS NOT MOCKED: STRAIGHTENING OUT A CROOKED WILL (PHAEDRUS 4.5)
Author: John Henderson
Pages: 213–230
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THE POMPEIAN TABLETS AND SOME LITERARY TEXTS
Author: Duncan Cloud
Pages: 231–246
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A NEW INSCRIPTION FROM CARIAN APHRODISIAS
Author: Joyce Reynolds
Pages: 247–251
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ROMAN LAW AND THE LAWS OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS: DECIUS' AND VALERIAN'S PERSECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
Author: Paul McKechnie
Pages: 253–269
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THE EXPRESS ROUTE TO HADES
Author: Beryl Rawson
Pages: 271–288
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JOHN CROOK: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author: PAUL MCKECHNIE
Pages: 289–294
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INDEX
Author: PAUL MCKECHNIE
Pages: 295–301
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SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE
Authors: H. PINKSTER, H.S. VERSNEL, D.M. SCHENKEVELD, P.H. SCHRIJVERS, and S.R. SLINGS
Pages: 303–305