Roman Law and Latin Literature

1. Introduction: Roman Law and Literature (Ioannis Ziogas Durham University, UK and Erica Bexley Durham University, UK)

PART I: Literature as Law
2. The Force of Literature (Mich¨le Lowrie, University of Chicago, USA)
3. Saturnalian Lex: Senecaâs Apocolocyntosis (Erica Bexley, Durham University, UK)
4. Iustitium in Lucanâs Bellum Civile (Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, UK)

PART II: Literature and Legal Tradition
5. Terenceâs Phormio and the Legal Discourse and Legal Profession at Rome (Jan Felix Gaertner, University of Cologne, Germany)
6. Beachcombing at the Centumviral Court: Littoral Meaning in the Causa Curiana (John Dugan, University at Buffalo, USA)
7. Marcus Antistius Labeo and the Idea of Legal Literature (Matthijs Wibier, University of Kent, UK)

Part III: Literature and Property Law
8. Poetry, Prosecution, and the Author Function (Nora Goldschmidt, Durham University, UK)
9. The Sea Common to All in Plautus, Rudens: Social Norms and Legal Rules (Thomas A. J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University, USA)
10. Intellectual 'Property': Ownership, Judgment, and Possession among Civic Artes (John Oksanish, Wake Forest University, USA)
11. Senecaâs Debt: Property, Self-Possession, and the Economy of Philosophical Exchange in the Epistulae Morales (Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto, Canada)

Part IV: Literature and Justice
11. Law in Disguise in the Metamorphoses: The Ambiguous Ecphrasis of Minerva and Arachne (Stella Alekou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
12. What the Roman Constitution Means to Me: Staging Encounters between US and Roman Law on Equality and Proportionality (Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, USA)

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