This it is a book on the Roman right for the Roman historians. It reveals that the rules established in plainly legal text books had a real and active function in the maintenance of the weave of the Roman society. Besides legal texts and the literary sources, the book makes use of the epigraphic materials, including the recent searches of Popleii that show the law in action in the commercial life of Puteoli. The rights and duties of the Roman citizens in the private life were affected by a series of fundamental differences in their official character. The women, ex--slaves, the adults with alive parents, criminal convictos, the play-actors - even the dumb blind, deaf people and, and the mental patients - in spite of all the citizens, were far from having equality of rights and capacities. The book is examined in detail what is the legal incapacity determined that it affected each group and also which are the practical implications of these they were for the accomplishment of the daily life. It considers, in addition, if, and how it can be related to the distinguishing Roman institution of the mother country power, and the direct participation of personnel and the interaction, that is a legal requirement for the majority of the transactions with legal consequences for the people and goods. In the being a Roman citizen, Jane F. Gardner sheds common light on the Roman citizenship and supposed challenges about the reasons for discrimination between the individuals and the implied social attitudes.

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