Adoption in the Roman World

ISBN: 9780511654404 出版年：2009 页码：258 Hugh Lindsay Cambridge University Press

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.