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No legal institution is more characteristically Roman than patria potestas — the power of the father — and none illustrates more starkly the gap between Roman law as a formal system and Roman life as it was actually lived. In strict legal theory, the Roman paterfamilias held …
Roman education was not a system. There was no state curriculum, no network of public schools funded by the central government, no standard …
Roman inheritance law was among the most sophisticated and practically important areas of Roman jurisprudence, because Roman society was organized …
The Roman family was not organized around the modern concept of the nuclear household. It was organized around the paterfamilias — the father of the …