Truth by Force? Torture as Evidence in Ancient Rhetoric and Roman Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation: Current Perspectives, Future Directions 1
4. Law in Declamation: The status legales in Senecan controversiae 7
5. Shared Speech in the Collection of the Elder Seneca (Contr. 10.4): Towards a Study of Common Literary Passages as Community Interaction 35
6. Forensic Intrusion into the Schools of Rhetoric: A Reading of Cassius Severus’ Attack on Cestius Pius 63
7. Ambiguous Silence: stuprum and pudicitia in Latin Declamation 75
8. Quaedam iura non lege, sed natura: Nature and Natural Law in Roman Declamation 95
9. Parricidii sit actio: Killing the Father in Roman Declamation 133
10. Cases of Poisoning in Greek and Roman Declamation 155
11. Truth by Force? Torture as Evidence in Ancient Rhetoric and Roman Law 201
12. The Law in the Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian 219
13. Tyrants and Tyrannicides: Between Literary Creation and Contemporary Reality in Greek Declamation 249
14. Nature over Law: Themes of Disowning in Libanius’ Declamations 269
15. Demosthenes’ Moral and Legal Arguments in Libanius’ Declamations 287
16. Two Laws, Two Loves: Generational Conflict Between a Father and His Son in Choricius’ Declamations 5 and 6 307
17. Contributors 333
18. Index of Ancient Names 337
19. Index of Modern Names 343
20. General Index 352