From Bedroom to Courtroom : Law and Justice in the Greek Novel.
From Bedroom to Courtroom? argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality. Given the genre's emphasis on love and chastity, the specter of adultery looms over most of the scenarios that...
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Havertown :
Barkhuis Publishing,
2017.
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Table of 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.