Title: Sermo iuris : Rechtssprache und Recht in der augusteischen Dichtung /
Authors: Gebhardt, Ulrich C. J.
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Law in literature.; Latin literature History and criticism.; Latin poetry History and criticism.; Roman law Language.; Literatur.; Recht <Motiv>; Rechtssprache.
Abstract: "Law played a key role in the workings of Roman culture, and legal discourse was important even in non-legal Latin literature. A proper understanding of that literature requires an investigation of the ways legal language is used. Nevertheless, legal elements have so far been widely neglected by scholars of Latin literature, in particular Augustan poetry. After an examination of legal language as a technical discourse and its role in Latin prose, the present book is devoted to a detailed analysis of legal language and imagery in the work of the Augustan poets. It will, therefore, allow for a better appreciation of these poems as well as of their significance for Augustan culture in the broad sense."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Ex iure manum consertum oder Wie sehen und gebrauchen die Römer ihre Rechtssprache? -- Ultra legem tendere opus? Bedingungen des Gebrauchs rechtlicher Konzepte in der dichtung -- Te deceat medio iura dedisse foro: Rechtliche Formen elegischer Liebe -- Die Oden und Epoden des Horaz -- Vergil und die iloti pedes: Rechtssprache zwischen Mythos und römischer Wirklichkeit -- Aitiologische Wahrheit als Verhandlungsgegenstand: Ovids Fasti -- Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit: Ovids poetische Rechtswelt in den Metamorphosen -- Ästhetische Prozesse: Prozessuale Situationen in Ovids Verbannungsdichtung -- Rückblick und Ausblick.