Lands, Laws, and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome

by Daniel J. Gargola

Book Overview

In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.C.). During this period of territorial expansion, the Romans developed the basic legal forms by which they governed captured land, and they constructed the processes and ceremonies by which those forms were translated into practice. Using agrarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080785705X
• ISBN13: 9780807857052
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"