Law and Religion in the Roman Republic

by Brill

Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources - epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic - this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004218505
• ISBN13: 9789004218505
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"