Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient RomeThis is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality while shedding light on important questions concerning marginal groups, marriage, sexual behavior, the family, slavery, and citizen status, particularly that of women. |
Contents
The Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis | |
History | |
Ne Serva and Prostitution | |
Ne Serva and Slavery | |
Honor and Shame | |
Humanitas and Policy | |
Prostitution and the Law of the Jurists 1 Private Law and Prostitution | |
FiduciaPledge | |
Inheritance Mandate and Usucapio in Sale | |
Emperors Jurists and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis | |
The Taxation of Roman Prostitutes | |
The Rate of the | |
Criticism of the | |
Fictional Criticism and Later History of the | |
Egypt and Palmyra | |
Profitability Legitimacy and Social Control | |
Restrictive Covenants in the Sale of Slaves 1 Public Policy and Private | |
Four Covenants | |
Migration and Manumission | |
Condictio | |
Theft and Wrongful Appropriation of Slave Prostitutes | |
The Petitio Hereditatis Compromissum and Operae | |
Iniuria | |
Diversity and Unity in Roman Legal | |
Bibliography | |
Index of Sources | |
Index of Persons | |
Index of Subjects | |
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