La figura paterna nel principato fra rappresentazioni e ius

Abstract

The paper investigates the representation of the father in the legal literature of the principate against the background of the dialectic between natura and ius civile. The texts subject to closer examination belong to jurists of the Severan age. The research makes use of the comparison with Latin declamations, a useful and soliciting material for this purpose, although not always adequately valorised in the studies of Roman legal historians.