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Title: Adoption in the Roman world
Author/Creator: Lindsay, Hugh
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: 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 arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps 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 used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian.
Relation: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2428020
Date: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keyword(s): adoption; families; Roman law; Roman social conditions
Resource Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917613
Identifier: ISBN:9780521760508

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