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,
“... so that a massive bath-project could get off the ground.’ The Roman Empire by Garnsey and Saller, from which these samples are drawn, is explicitly hostile to ‘the patient collection of stray items of evidence from diverse sources’ and the ‘mere antiquarian listing of discrete data’, but where Veyne and Brown take off from the details towards ... ”
