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
Introduction Law in Society | 3 |
2 Law in Society | 4 |
3 Problems with Nonlegal Evidence | 9 |
4 Honor and Shame | 10 |
5 Marginal Status | 14 |
6 Defining Prostitution | 17 |
7 Prostitution Sexuality and the Law | 18 |
Civic Disabilities The Status of Prostitutes and Pimps as Roman Citizens | 21 |
5 The Rate of the Tax | 264 |
6 Criticism of the Tax | 268 |
7 Fictional Criticism and Later History of the Tax | 269 |
Egypt and Palmyra | 274 |
9 Profitability Legitimacy and Social Control | 286 |
Ne Serva Prostituatur Restrictive Covenants in the Sale of Slaves | 288 |
2 Four Covenants | 289 |
3 Migration and Manumission | 291 |
2 Religious Political and Civic Disabilities Imposed on Prostitutes and Pimps | 23 |
3 Disabilities at Law | 44 |
4 The Core of Infamia and the Community of Honor | 65 |
The Lex lulia et Papia | 70 |
2 Marriage with Prostitutes before Augustus | 85 |
3 The Terms of the Lex lulia et Papia regarding Marriage with Practitioners of Prostitution | 91 |
4 Marriage Practice and Possibilities | 102 |
Emperors Jurists and the Lex lulia et Papia | 105 |
2 Subsequent Legislation | 106 |
3 Juristic Interpretation | 120 |
The Lex lulia de Adulieriis Coercendis | 140 |
2 The Status of the Mater Familias | 147 |
3 The Adultera as Prostitute | 156 |
4 Lettocinium | 171 |
5 Exemptions | 194 |
6 Pimps Prostitutes and the lus Occidendi | 202 |
7 Social Policy and the Lex lulia on Adultery | 207 |
Emperors Jurists and the Lex lulia de Adulteriis Coercendis | 216 |
3 Juristic Interpretation | 219 |
4 The Law on Adultery and the Policymaking Elite | 245 |
The Taxation of Roman Prostitutes | 248 |
2 The Evidence for Caligulas Introduction of the Tax | 249 |
3 Caligulas Motives for Introducing the Tax | 250 |
4 Methods of Collection | 256 |
History | 292 |
5 Ne Serva and Prostitution | 304 |
6 Ne Serva and Slavery | 306 |
7 Honor and Shame | 311 |
8 Humanitas and Policy | 316 |
Prostitution and the Law of the Jurists | 320 |
FiduciaPledge | 321 |
Inheritance Mandate and Usucapio in Sale | 322 |
Condictio | 324 |
Theft and Wrongful Appropriation of Slave Prostitutes | 325 |
The Petitio Hereditatis Compromissum and Operae | 328 |
Iniuria | 331 |
Donatio | 335 |
Conclusion Diversity and Unity in Roman Legal Perspectives on Prostitution | 338 |
2 Prostitution and the Law | 341 |
3 Public Policy | 343 |
4 Society and Law | 345 |
5 Unity in Diversity | 347 |
Bibliography | 349 |
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