Roman comedy-in-law
Abstract
Expositors and translators of the lively Latin comedies of Plautus (250s - ca.184 BC) are often too little informed of rules and terms of Roman Law. Sometimes this deficiency leaves readers or, in performance, audiences unaware of amusing irony and clever joking. They find a bland bit of dialogue or unremarkable circumstance where the playwright included, in plays loosely modeled after Greek ones, not only Roman references but Roman humor. Comparison of translations with the Latin behind them shows how much may missed if one does not understand contemporary law pertaining (for example) to personal status and contract, some of it recently developed by the Praetores Urbani. Related texts show the richness of Plautus legal-jocular scripts.
Keywords:
Stipulatio / Roman law / Roman comedy / Plautus / Patria potestasSource:
Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu, 2013, 61, 3, 23-38Institution/Community
Pravni fakultet / Faculty of Law University of BelgradeTY - JOUR AU - Castellani, Victor PY - 2013 UR - https://ralf.ius.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1569 AB - Expositors and translators of the lively Latin comedies of Plautus (250s - ca.184 BC) are often too little informed of rules and terms of Roman Law. Sometimes this deficiency leaves readers or, in performance, audiences unaware of amusing irony and clever joking. They find a bland bit of dialogue or unremarkable circumstance where the playwright included, in plays loosely modeled after Greek ones, not only Roman references but Roman humor. Comparison of translations with the Latin behind them shows how much may missed if one does not understand contemporary law pertaining (for example) to personal status and contract, some of it recently developed by the Praetores Urbani. Related texts show the richness of Plautus legal-jocular scripts. T2 - Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu T1 - Roman comedy-in-law EP - 38 IS - 3 SP - 23 VL - 61 UR - conv_3202 ER -
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pages = "38-23",
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Castellani, V.. (2013). Roman comedy-in-law. in Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu, 61(3), 23-38. conv_3202
Castellani V. Roman comedy-in-law. in Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu. 2013;61(3):23-38. conv_3202 .
Castellani, Victor, "Roman comedy-in-law" in Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu, 61, no. 3 (2013):23-38, conv_3202 .