Adoption in the Roman world / Hugh Lindsay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindsay, Hugh, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption--Rome--History.

Adoption.

Families--Rome--History.

Families.

Adoption (Roman law).

Rome--Social conditions.

Rome.

Rome--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian.

Contents:

Introduction

Adoption, kinship and the family : cross-cultural perspectives

Kinship in Greece and Rome

Greek adoptions : comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world

Procedural aspects of Roman adoption

The testamentary adoption

Roman nomenclature after adoption

Adoption and inheritance

Roman freedmen and their families : the use of adoption

Adoption in Plautus and Terence

Sallust and the adoption of Jugurtha

Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire

Testamentary adoptions : a review of some known cases

Political adoptions in the Republic

Clodius and his adoption

The adoption of Octavian

Political adoption in the early Empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia ; the imperial family

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20783-5

0-511-70038-5

9786612402470

0-511-65635-1

0-511-65821-4

0-511-65550-9

0-511-65690-4

OCLC:

609850338