lex Papia Poppaea

Authors
Publication date 25-02-2019
Host editors
  • T. Whitmarsh
Book title Oxford Classical Dictionary
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9780199381135
Series Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Article number e-8271
Number of pages 4
Publisher Oxford: Oxford University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence (PSC)
Abstract The lex Papia Poppaea was enacted in 9 ce by the suffect consuls, M. Papius Mutilus and Q. Poppaeus Secundus, probably on the initiative of the Emperor Augustus. The law complemented, supplemented, and enhanced the provisions of the lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus (the law of Augustus concerning the regulation of marriage, enacted in 18 bce). The two laws, referred to jointly as the lex Iulia et Papia, had the primary effect of obliging all Roman citizens to marry and have (legitimate) heirs.
Document type Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8271
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