Roman Law and Latin Literature

Ioannis Ziogas is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Law and Love in Ovid (2021). Erica Bexley is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. She is the author of Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves (2022).

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 (Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago, USA)
3. Saturnalian Lex: Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis (Erica Bexley, Durham University, UK)
4. Iustitium in Lucan’s Bellum Civile (Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, UK)

PART II: Literature and Legal Tradition
5. Terence’s 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. Seneca’s 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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