Arrius Menander

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Arrius Menander was an important late classical lawyer of the Roman Empire . He was of Italian origin and lived in the 3rd century AD. The exact place and date of his birth are not known. He was probably killed in a Germanic campaign in July 213 .

It is known about his career that he was a legal adviser ( consiliarius Augusti ) on the permanent, specialized legal state council ( consilium ) under Septimius Severus . After Caracalla assumed sole rule, Arrius Menander was presumably appointed head of the imperial dragonfly chancellery ( a libellis ) in December 211 . He thus succeeded the disgraced Papinian .

Arrius Menander apparently dealt mainly with Roman military law . Some fragments have been preserved in the late antique digests , which indicate a corresponding subject-specific treatise by the lawyer. It is particularly fitting that the private rescripts made famous by Menander, which he wrote in the name and with the consent of the emperor, were markedly soldier-friendly.

Arrius Menander was next to Papinian a contemporary of the lawyer Ulpian , who mentioned him in his treatises and to whom he resembled in his style.

literature

  • Detlef Liebs : Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian. Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Munich 2010, CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , Menander .
  • Detlef Liebs: Arrius Menander. In: Klaus Sallmann (ed.): The literature of upheaval. From Roman to Christian literature, AD 117 to 284 (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 4). CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39020-X , p. 137 f.
personal data
SURNAME Menander, Arrius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION important Roman jurist of Italian origin
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century