A Casebook on Roman Family Law
A Casebook on Roman Family Law
An American Philological Association Book | November 6, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0195161866 | 528 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
An American Philological Association Book | November 6, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0195161866 | 528 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The subject matter of these ancient sources includes marriage and divorce, the property aspects of marriage, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of Roman orphans.