Law and Love in Ovid - Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus

Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's creation.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Eros and Nomos


• PART I THE TRIALS OF LOVE


• 2: Love as a State of Exception


• 3: The Courtroom in the Bedroom


• 4: The Letter of the Law


• PART II LEX AMATORIA


• 5: Poets and Lawmakers


• 6: Sexperts and Legal Experts


• PART III THE LAW OF THE FATHER


• 7: Authors of Law and Life


• 8: Love and Incest


• Epilogue


• Bibliography

Summary

Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's creation.

Product details

• Authors: Ioannis Ziogas, Ioannis (Associate Professor Ziogas, Ziogas Ioannis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198845140
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884514-0
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Classics in Theory Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Human biology, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval