ANCIENT ROME


Legal Status In the Roman World

A Survey through Time

 

Laws of the Kings

The Royal Period

 

The Twelve Tables

Republican Rome's first legal code (450 B.C.)

 

The Constitution of Republican Rome

Republican Roman Government and Offices

 

Polybius On The Republican Constitution

The Greek historian Polybius presents a general analysis of the Roman constitution at the time of the Second Punic War.

 

THE GRACCHI

The Tribune Reformers

 

The Legacy of Marius and Sulla

The Roots of Civil War

 

The Cicero Home Page

Everything you ever wanted to know about Marcus Tullius and More.

 

Caesar Augustus and the Imperium

The Lex Julia-marriage laws

 

 

Pliny and Trajan on the Christians

Pliny asks the emperor how to conduct the trials of Christians accused of treason.

 

The Edicts Of Diocletian

anti-Christian decrees

 

 

Late Roman Sources

Medieval Sourcebook: Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex: Marriage Laws

An Excerpt from The Code of Justininan

 

 

SLAVE-MISTRESS RELATIONSHIPS

"Mixed marriages," and late Roman law.

by Judith Evans-Grubbs

 

 

Index