Adoption in the Roman world/
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York:
Cambridge University Press,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 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.