Cronaca del convegno "Le antinomie ‘necessarie’. L’ordinamento giuridico romano tra istanze sistematiche e contraddizioni irrisolte", organizzato dalla Libera Università Mediterranea (LUM Jean Monnet) di Casamassima e l'Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, con la regia dei professori Salvo Randazzo e Andrea Lovato.

The new institutional rule wanted by the Emperor Constantine called a direct intervention in public education. With the establishment of the new capital, Constantinople, there are schools and universities, as well as a public library, where came docts waiting for honors from the Emperor. Constantine infact reward with important exemptions from munera professors and doctors, together with their closest relatives, in order to facilitate their professional duties.

the activity of witness is subject to restrictions that sometimes are substantiated in actual foreclosures. Talk about them Callistrato in a long fragment from the fourth book of de cognitionibus where he comment some rescripts of the emperor Hadrian; and still Quintilian in Institutio oratoria citing the model of Aristotele on witnesses; then Meciano and Venuleio in some fragments of their works on iudicia publica, until Arcadio Carisio with liber singularis de testibus that, for the first time, expressly call a work in that way.

Il periodo tardoantico nella storiografia moderna ha generato due scuole di pensiero: da una parte è visto come un’epoca di lenta transizione al medioevo, dall’altra è considerato come un momento di crisi e di declino. Franz Wieacker ha parlato di periodo “epiclassico” e Andrea Giardina ne ha commentato l’esplosivo ed improvviso interesse degli studiosi negli ultimi trentanni.

This work aims to highlight the possibility of isolating two parts of Caesar lex de pecuniis repetundis (or lex repetundarum) betrayed by Cicero (fam. 8,8,3 and Rabir. Post. 8; 9; 12), and a further 'fragment', mediated by Cicero, in Suet., Iul. 42,3. These testimonies, from a philological and text-critical, highlight interesting aspects of the little-known activities of the legislature of a personality well known in other ways.

The work aims to deepen the sources of Roman law after the substantial changes of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD made in order to concentrate the normative power of the emperor, and to address the penury of evidence for the literary activity of the classical jurisprudence and the jurists of this era. The same jurists, before being interpreters of law, were its publishers. Accordingly, iura and leges, become sources of production, but they were found in a complex and also various dialectic exercise during the period in question.

The Author studies the complex figure of the Praefectus praetorio in his institutional office through the accounts of Aurelius Archadius Charisius and Johannes Lydus.

The concept of restoration of a property to us moderns seems clear enough, but in ancient times was often confused with that of reconstruction. During the long period of decline first and then the dissolution of the Roman Empire, even the public buildings were in a state of serious decline and were therefore in need of significant and expensive restoration work. The Theodosian Code governs the legislation on public works in a specific way, where maintenance and restoration are preferred for reconstruction.

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The system of recruitment of teachers involved several roman emperors. The shift forced the evaluation of a committee of experts in the field related by Lucian of Samosata in the second century AD during the age of Marco Aurelio, the use of the word idoneus in the fourth century after passing the examinations with a predetermined majority seem procedures relevant also today with particular reference to the recent enabling national scientific functions of a university professor by italian law 240/2010.

Utilizzo di termini latini e greci per denominare autovetture

This work seeks to examine a specific type of munus, the viarum munitio, in the organization of the cursus publicus in the imperial age, so by starting with a brief history of diachronic semantics of the munus.