Hugh Lindsay

Adoption in the Roman World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760508
• ISBN-10: 052176050X
• Artikelnr.: 26526306

Autorenporträt

Hugh Lindsay is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His previous publications include Suetonius: Caligula (1993), Suetonius: Tiberius (1995) and he co-edited (with Daniela Dueck and Sarah Poethecary) Strabo's Cultural Geography (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Adoption, kinship and the family: cross cultural perspectives
2. Kinship in Greece and Rome
3. Greek adoptions: comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world
4. Procedural aspects of Roman adoption
5. The testamentary adoption
6. Roman nomenclature after adoption
7. Adoption and inheritance
8. Roman freedmen and their families: the use of adoption
9. Adoption in Plautus and Terence
10. Sallust and the adoption of Jugurtha
11. Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire
12. Testamentary adoptions - a review of some known cases
13. Political adoptions in the Republic
14. Clodius and his adoption
15. The adoption of Octavian
16. Political adoption in the early empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia
17. The imperial family
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.