LA VILLA DEL GIURISTA: LODE ALLA TRADIZIONE

Abstract

The Villa del Giurista is in all respects an extraordinary discovery for both archaeology and jurisprudence, due to its attribution to the Mucii.
The frescoes, which date back to the period between 60 and 40 B.C., are strong testimony to the reverentia for the scientia iuris related to the
history of the illustrious family. They were a powerful and effective communication tool for a message that we can try, as far as possible, to decrypt
and that could turn out to be even more complex than it may seem at first glance, considering the apparent antinomy between the evolution
of values in the first century B.C. and the ostentation in the Villa of apparently outdated cultural models that were linked to the mores maiorum.
The presence, which is only apparently surprising, of the jurist Aulus Ofilius is particularly interesting. Although he belonged to the Servian
school, he showed a keen interest in objectivity and precision, in rationality and clear separation between legal institutions, especially in the
sources that refer to the right of succession.