2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

IUS/18 (ROMAN LAW AND LAWS OF ANCIENT TIMES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

Storico

1°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

60 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

MAROTTA VALERIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None

History of Roman Law deepens a single part of Roman law (private or public) to put the students in contact with its sources and documents.

The Constitution of the Principate
1. Introduction: Magistrates and power in Roman Republic. 2. Imperium and tribunicia potestas. 3. Juridical definitions of the Principate. 4. The lex de imperio Vespasiani. 5. Emperor, populus, magistrates in jurisconsults’ works. 6. Constitutio principis. 7. Emperor’s omnipresence and Rome’s ubiquity. 8. Bureaucratic machineries and power pro tempore holder. 9. Gods rule the world: an ideological conflict in Late Antiquity. 10. Transmission of the imperial powers in the Historia Augusta.

Direct Teaching.

Attenders
V. Marotta, Esercizio e trasmissione del potere imperiale (secoli I – IV d.C.). Studi di diritto pubblico romano, Torino, Giappichelli, 2016.
Non-attending Students:
V. Marotta, La cittadinanza romana in età imperiale (secoli I-III d.C.). Una sintesi, Giappichelli, Torino 2009.
Or
C. Giachi-V. Marotta, Diritto e giurisprudenza in Roma antica, Carocci, Roma 2012, 13-200.
Or
V. Marotta, Esercizio e trasmissione del potere imperiale (secoli I – IV d.C.). Studi di diritto pubblico romano, Torino, Giappichelli, 2016.

Oral Examination.

None.