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Final Judgements: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250 - Couverture rigide

Champlin, Edward

 
9780520071032: Final Judgements: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520071034 ISBN 13 : 9780520071032
Editeur : University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments.

Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor.

Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently.

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À propos de l'auteur

Edward Champlin is Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. His publications include Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520071034
ISBN 13 
9780520071032
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
206
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