Abstract
This paper is dedicated to the environmental protection according to the rules of Roman law. Combining Roman and environmental law may seem controversial, since the latter is regulated by the means of public law, and on the contrary, Roman private law is not suitable for systematic environmental protection. Hence, the protection of environment was neither a main issue of Roman politics nor Roman law. Nevertheless, the Romans created several legal instruments that could be used to protect the collective interest in preventing the environmental damages. Regarding the above mentioned, this paper offers a view on the different sources that record the protective attitude of Romans towards the nature and environment. In addition, this paper examines the instruments of legal protection of environment in the sources of Roman law, i.e., interdicts and actions that tend to protect the purity of air and waters. The paper is intended to serve as a source of information for practitioners as well as for historians or academics dealing with Roman law, while everyone will be approaching the text differently and with different questions.
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