In their fathers’ power
Jasper Griffin, 15 October 1987
A History of Private Life. Vol. I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
edited by Paul Veyne.
Harvard, 670 pp., £24.95, May 1987,0 674 39975 7 Show More
edited by Paul Veyne.
Harvard, 670 pp., £24.95, May 1987,
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
edited by Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller.
Duckworth, 231 pp., £24, March 1987,0 7156 2145 9 Show More
edited by Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller.
Duckworth, 231 pp., £24, March 1987,
“... Veyne and Brown does more to illuminate what it was actually like to live in that distant world. Wacher’s book tells the reader how farmers worked and where soldiers were stationed; Garnsey and Saller illuminate the terms of trade and the mechanism of feeding the city of Rome; Veyne brings to life the existence of the poor rustic, protected and exploited ... ”
