Research Catalog

Title

Thinking like a lawyer : essays on legal history and general history for John Crook on his eightieth birthday / edited by Paul McKechnie.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Crook, J. A. (John Anthony)
• McKechnie, Paul, 1957-

Description

xii, 301 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Annotation

Series Statement

Mnemosyne. Supplements, 0169-8958 ; v. 231. History and archaeology of classical antiquity

Uniform Title

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity
• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 231.

Subject

• Crook, J. A
• Roman law
• Rome > History

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• History

Note

• 'Contributors' : p. [xi]-xii.

Bibliography (note)

• John Crook bibliography: (p. [289]-294).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• English, and one essay in German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Thinking about civil law -- Peculiar questions / David Johnston -- Diem diffindere : die Vertagung im Urteilstermin nach der lex Irnitana / Joseph Georg Wolf -- Consilium praesidis : advising governors / Paul Weaver -- Aspects of violent crime in the Roman Empire / Keith Hopwood -- Thinking like a Roman -- Mental maps : seeing like a Roman / C.R. Whittaker -- Aeneid 6.826-35 : Homer and Caesar's Gallic command / W.R. Barnes -- Dido's treasure at Tacitus Annals 16.1-3 / P. Murgatroyd -- Vicarious voices -- Direct democracy, ancient and modern / M.H. Hansen -- Advocacy, logography and Erôtêsis in Athenian lawcourts / S.C. Todd -- Herodotus and the Iranian tradition / J.S. Sheldon -- Philosophy, rhetoric and legal advocacy / R. Godfrey Tanner -- Law and life of Rome -- Pro and anti : the dignitas of the Senate in 88 BC / A.M. Stone -- Law is not mocked : straightening out a crooked will (Phaedrus 4.5) / John Henderson -- Pompeian tablets and some literary texts / Duncan Cloud -- New inscription from Carian Aphrodisias / Joyce Reynolds -- Roman law and the laws of the Medes and Persians : Decius' and Valerian's persecutions of Christianity / Paul McKechnie -- Express route to Hades / Beryl Rawson -- John Crook: bibliography / Paul McKechnie, Kathryn McKee and W.R. Barnes.

ISBN

9004124748 (hb : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2001059241

OCLC

48655714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library