Tony Honoré
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199244249
- eISBN:
- 9780191705212
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244249.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Philosophy of Law
This is the only full-scale modern account of the life and work of the early 3rd-century lawyer from Syria who contributed two-fifths of Justinian’s 6th-century Digest, which for many centuries ...
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This is the only full-scale modern account of the life and work of the early 3rd-century lawyer from Syria who contributed two-fifths of Justinian’s 6th-century Digest, which for many centuries formed the staple of European legal education. His writing has been at least as influential as that of any lawyer, ancient or modern. As an intellectual in government he not only wrote about Roman law and administration, public and private, on a massive scale but also played a full part in the turbulent life of the Severan dynasty (193–235), until his murder by rebellious troops in 223 or 224 AD. The second edition stresses Ulpian’s claim to be the first lawyer to adumbrate human rights. He expounded Roman law to the cosmopolitan society of his time, in which citizenship was extended to all free people of the empire, as a system based on reason and equity designed for people, including slaves, who were by nature free and equal. In dealing with legal problems his works argue from example and analogy and appeal to consideration of utility and equity in a way not unlike that of Anglo-American lawyers. The book examines Ulpian’s claim that law is the true ‘philosophy’.Less
This is the only full-scale modern account of the life and work of the early 3rd-century lawyer from Syria who contributed two-fifths of Justinian’s 6th-century Digest, which for many centuries formed the staple of European legal education. His writing has been at least as influential as that of any lawyer, ancient or modern. As an intellectual in government he not only wrote about Roman law and administration, public and private, on a massive scale but also played a full part in the turbulent life of the Severan dynasty (193–235), until his murder by rebellious troops in 223 or 224 AD. The second edition stresses Ulpian’s claim to be the first lawyer to adumbrate human rights. He expounded Roman law to the cosmopolitan society of his time, in which citizenship was extended to all free people of the empire, as a system based on reason and equity designed for people, including slaves, who were by nature free and equal. In dealing with legal problems his works argue from example and analogy and appeal to consideration of utility and equity in a way not unlike that of Anglo-American lawyers. The book examines Ulpian’s claim that law is the true ‘philosophy’.
Alessandro Vatri
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198795902
- eISBN:
- 9780191837081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795902.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the concept of orality in its different understandings, and discusses how it has been applied to the study of Attic prose. A text may be called oral because it was habitually ...
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This chapter examines the concept of orality in its different understandings, and discusses how it has been applied to the study of Attic prose. A text may be called oral because it was habitually received through the spoken channel (‘literal’ orality), or because it shows traces of an oral ‘mentality’, or because it displays features suggesting oral composition or connected to a variously identified ‘oral style’. This study adopts a ‘literalist’ perspective in order to explore how the contexts of the oral performance of prose texts in classical Athens relate to their linguistic form. Early Greek rhetorical thought distinguishes between a ‘written’ and a ‘non-written’ style. This distinction comes to transcend the question of oral or written composition and eventually appears to relate to the function of the written texts in different contexts of reception and modes of performance (hypokrisis vs anagnosis).Less
This chapter examines the concept of orality in its different understandings, and discusses how it has been applied to the study of Attic prose. A text may be called oral because it was habitually received through the spoken channel (‘literal’ orality), or because it shows traces of an oral ‘mentality’, or because it displays features suggesting oral composition or connected to a variously identified ‘oral style’. This study adopts a ‘literalist’ perspective in order to explore how the contexts of the oral performance of prose texts in classical Athens relate to their linguistic form. Early Greek rhetorical thought distinguishes between a ‘written’ and a ‘non-written’ style. This distinction comes to transcend the question of oral or written composition and eventually appears to relate to the function of the written texts in different contexts of reception and modes of performance (hypokrisis vs anagnosis).
George Worlasi and Kwasi Dor
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039140
- eISBN:
- 9781621039952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039140.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 3 examines the pedagogical approaches of ensemble instructors who belong to three categories: (1) former master drummers of a West African national dance ensemble, (2) Africans who have ...
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Chapter 3 examines the pedagogical approaches of ensemble instructors who belong to three categories: (1) former master drummers of a West African national dance ensemble, (2) Africans who have pursued or are pursuing a graduate degree in American universities, and (3) American ethnomusicologists who studied West African ethnic dance drumming traditions in Africa, probing the possible influences of their trainings on their teaching approaches. Also, the chapter includes some semantics into “master drummer,” “mother drummer,” and “lead drummer,” three labels often used in qualifying these directors. Pedagogical issues include teaching dance drumming as an integrated art, oral-aural-visual styles of learning, representing African music in the American classroom, germane to the “authenticity” debate, and the use of solely African or American approaches, or a combination of the preceding as dictated by contextual needs. Chapter 3 also explores the practice of the options of teaching multiple or limited dances within a semester.Less
Chapter 3 examines the pedagogical approaches of ensemble instructors who belong to three categories: (1) former master drummers of a West African national dance ensemble, (2) Africans who have pursued or are pursuing a graduate degree in American universities, and (3) American ethnomusicologists who studied West African ethnic dance drumming traditions in Africa, probing the possible influences of their trainings on their teaching approaches. Also, the chapter includes some semantics into “master drummer,” “mother drummer,” and “lead drummer,” three labels often used in qualifying these directors. Pedagogical issues include teaching dance drumming as an integrated art, oral-aural-visual styles of learning, representing African music in the American classroom, germane to the “authenticity” debate, and the use of solely African or American approaches, or a combination of the preceding as dictated by contextual needs. Chapter 3 also explores the practice of the options of teaching multiple or limited dances within a semester.
