| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A Note about Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION -- Rhetoric and Realia -- Roman Law in the Greek World -- The Form of the Trial Scene -- I. CHARITON, CALLIRHOE -- In the Shadow of the Lex Julia de adulteriis coercendis? -- Trial 1. A Crime of Passion: Uxoricide -- Trial 2. Pirates of the Mediterranean: Tomb Robbery and Kidnapping -- Trial 3. A Hellene in the King's Court: Malfeasance -- Trial 4. Trial by Battle: Bigamy -- Conclusion -- II. ACHILLES TATIUS, LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON -- Legal Pluralism in Roman Alexandria -- Trial 5. Facts Not in Evidence: Murder -- Trial 6. Iudicium Deorum: Sacrilege -- Conclusion -- III. HELIODORUS, AETHIOPICA -- Patria Potestas after the Antonine Constitution -- Trial 7. In the Name of the Father: Patricide -- Trial 8. The Fury's Whip: Entrapment -- Trial 9. Innocents Abroad: Poisoning -- Trial 10. A Royal Paternity Suit: Infanticide -- Trial 11. Lost and Found: Abduction -- Conclusion -- GENERAL CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Texts, Translations, and Commentaries -- Works Cited -- INDICES -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chariton. De Chaerea et Callirrhoe -- Criticism, Textual
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Achilles Tatius. Leucippe and Clitophon -- Criticism, Textual
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Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica -- Criticism, Textual
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| SUBJECT |
Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa) fast |
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De Chaerea et Callirrhoe (Chariton) fast |
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Leucippe and Clitophon (Achilles Tatius) fast |
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Roman law -- Influence.
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Law in literature.
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Adultery (Roman law)
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Adultery (Roman law)
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Law in literature
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Roman law -- Influence
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789492444202 |
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9492444208 |
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