Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom

By: Leanne Bablitz

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Hardcover | 2 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behaviour of litigants, advocates, judges and audience?

It was customary for Roman individuals out of general interest to attend the various courts held in public places in the city centre and as such, the Roman courts held an important position in the Roman community on a sociological level as well as a litigious one.

This book considers many aspects of Roman courts in the first two centuries AD, both civil and criminal, and illuminates the interaction of Romans of every social group.

Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom is an essential resource for courses on Roman social history and Roman law as a historical phenomenon.

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"As Leanne Bablitz demonstrates in this engaging, bold, and erudite book, Roman trial participants were ... acutely aware of the theatricality of courtroom proceedings and rituals ... Her portrait of a city 'teeming with courts' in the early imperial period is both convincing and fascinating. ... Throughout, Bablitz draws on an impressive range of evidence, including relevant archaeological and topographical studies, numismatic evidence, epigraphy, and literary evidence. ... Bablitz's rich and detailed research more than justifies her conclusion that 'the concrete theatrical elements' of courtrooms 'cannot be overlooked.'"- Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, University of London), Phoenix

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Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The location of legal activities in the city of Rome	p. 13
Courts of the praetors	p. 14
Court of the emperor	p. 34
Courts of other magistrates	p. 39
Overview of locations	p. 48
Reconstruction of the Roman courtroom	p. 51
Types of people present	p. 52
Physical arrangement of the participants	p. 53
Physical arrangement of the audience	p. 57
The distinction between types of courts	p. 59
The centumviral court	p. 61
The litigant	p. 71
Identity of litigants	p. 72
Motivation	p. 77
Choosing an advocate	p. 81
The litigant in the courtroom	p. 81
The judge	p. 89
An overview of judges at Rome	p. 91
Album iudicum	p. 92
Unus iudex	p. 101
The stress of judging	p. 103
Favoritism in the rulings of the judge	p. 108
Judicial service: honor or duty?	p. 110
The judge in the courtroom	p. 116
The audience	p. 120
The identity of the audience	p. 121
Audience participation	p. 133
Clientelae and the claque	p. 136
The advocate	p. 141
Status, pay, the "decline of oratory", and terminology	p. 141
The cases of advocates	p. 150
Factors in the selection of cases	p. 158
Factors in the refusal of cases	p. 165
Provincial and out-of-town advocates	p. 167
The advocate's role outside and in the courtroom	p. 170
Time investment and workload	p. 170
The advocate in the courtroom	p. 186
Conclusions	p. 199
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 253
Index locorum	p. 264
Subject index	p. 279
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