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,
“... of the well-born.’ Those epigrammatic generalisations, from the pens of Paul Veyne and Peter Brown, are fairly typical of the History of Private Life at its best: a book which makes the reader think, teasing and encouraging with spicy details, long views, a capacity for the unexpected insight. Now for something completely different: ‘The goose is ... ”
