The censors’ edict against the Latini rhetores: motivations and consequences

Authors

  • Felipe Epprecht Douverny Centro Universitário Campo Real

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24067/rjfa7;16.1:835

Keywords:

Roman Law, Censors, Edict, Latin rhetoricians, Regimen morum, Nota censoria

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the edict issued by the roman censors in 92 BC against the Latin rhetoricians, deal with its motivations and try to answer, based on the analysis of the powers exercised by the censors when controlling roman custom (regimen morum), a much debated question in the literature concerning the history of Rhetoric in Rome, that is, knowing if such edict has caused the closing of the schools of the Latini rhetores.

 

Author Biography

Felipe Epprecht Douverny, Centro Universitário Campo Real

 

   

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Published

2019-06-27

How to Cite

Douverny, F. E. (2019). The censors’ edict against the Latini rhetores: motivations and consequences. FA7 Law Review, 16(1), 43–58. https://doi.org/10.24067/rjfa7;16.1:835