Adoption in the Roman World.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben und verschmutzt, Buchr�cken leicht besto�n, sonst sehr guter Zustand / binding slightly rubbed and soiled, spine slightly scuffed, otherwise very good condition. - Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman world. 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 arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession in Rome is detailed, and this helps us to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was employed to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian. / CONTENTS List of figures Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1 Adoption, kinship and the family: cross-cultural perspectives 2 Kinship in Greece and Rome 3 Greek adoptions: comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world 4 Procedural aspects of Roman adoption 5 The testamentary adoption 6 Roman nomenclature after adoption 7 Adoption and inheritance 8 Roman freedmen and their families: the use of adoption 9 Adoption in Plautus and Terence io Sallust and the adoption of Jugurtha ii Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire 12 Testamentary adoptions � a review of some known cases 13 Political adoptions in the Republic 14 Clodius and his adoption 15 The adoption of Octavian 16 Political adoption in the early Empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia; the imperial family Conclusion.