Etymological Law

Ziogas, I.

doi:10.13137/2464-8760/32056

Etymological Law

Ziogas, I.

Authors

Professor Ioannis Ziogas ioannis.ziogas@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

The origins of law coincide with the origins of language, as both Plato and Horace highlight. Thus, a systematic attempt to discover the etymological roots of words simultaneously reveals the source of legality. The article examines the etymological doctrina (‘learning’) of poets vis-à-vis the etymological reasoning of learned jurists. The Twelve Tables, Catullus, and Labeo engage in similar etymological pursuits. Ovid’s Byblis responds to Labeo’s etymologies. The jurist Ulpian echoes the poetics of Latin love elegy. Lawyers and poets meet on the common ground of etymology in their attempts to lay down the law.

Citation

Ziogas, I. (2021). Etymological Law. Incontri di filologia classica, 19, 179-200. https://doi.org/10.13137/2464-8760/32056

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2021
Deposit Date	May 10, 2021
Publicly Available Date	May 10, 2021
Journal	Incontri di filologia classica
Print ISSN	2464-8752
Electronic ISSN	2464-8760
Publisher	EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	19
Pages	179-200
DOI	https://doi.org/10.13137/2464-8760/32056
Publisher URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10077/32056