Richard P. Saller

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family

Moses I. Finley

Brent D. Shaw

Economy and Society in Ancient Greece

David I. Kertzer

Provides historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Topics covered include marriage, divorce, matchmaking, inheritance, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption and property rights.

The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present

The first major study of patronage in the early Empire.

Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire

Ian Morris

Walter Scheidel

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.

Richard P. Saller

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