Publius Mucius Scaevola

This article deals with the consul of 133 BC. For his father of the same name, see Publius Mucius Scaevola (Consul 175 BC) .

Publius Mucius Scaevola (* 180 BC ; † 115 BC ) was a Roman republican politician and lawyer .

The son of the consul of the same name from 175 BC. Chr. Was 141 v. Chr. To tribunes chosen 136 for Praetor . 133 BC He was together with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi consul , as he supported the agrarian reforms of Tiberius Gracchus , while Piso rejected them. According to Pomponius , Publius Mucius is considered to be one of the authoritative authors on Roman civil law ( Ius civile ) and wrote a ten-volume legal work that has been passed on in part by Cicero and later lawyers. He and his group of scholars are considered to be the co-founders of a regular legal science , which, however, was only systematized by his son Quintus Mucius Scaevola . In 131 BC He became the successor of his late brother Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus Pontifex Maximus . His grandson Manius Acilius Glabrio was 67 BC. Chr. Consul.

literature

• Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 10 (p. 9 f.).
• Detlef Liebs : P. Mucius Scaevola. In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginnings to Sulla's death (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , p. 566 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 9 (p. 9).