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Adoption in the Roman world
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Adoption in the Roman world

Author: Hugh Lindsay
Publisher: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Hugh Lindsay
ISBN: 9780521760508 052176050X 9780511658211 0511658214
OCLC Number: 319494965
Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Adoption, kinship and the family : cross-cultural perspectives --
Kinship in Greece and Rome --
Greek adoptions : comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world --
Procedural aspects of Roman adoption --
The testamentary adoption --
Roman nomenclature after adoption --
Adoption and inheritance --
Roman freedmen and their families : the use of adoption --
Adoption in Plautus and Terence --
Sallust and the adoption of Jugurtha --
Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire --
Testamentary adoptions : a review of some known cases --
Political adoptions in the Republic --
Clodius and his adoption --
The adoption of Octavian --
Political adoption in the early Empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia ; the imperial family --
Conclusion.
Responsibility: Hugh Lindsay.
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Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.  Read more...

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