Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome

Reviews / Votes

'The importance of the subject and the quality of the individual essays should attract a wide audience ... Each of the contributors is distinguished by previous achievements in the field.' * T.A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University, History, Spring 1993 * 'reader-friendly: plates have been added, technical terms and quotations from Greek and Latin are translated, the editor's brief introduction brings out themes with admirable clarity ... Not the least of this volume's virtues is a sophisticated and critical handling of cross-cultural comparisons ... it is independent judgments like these which make this book lifely to fulfil one of its editor's goals: to contribute to family studies as a whole.' * Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg, Ancient History, No. 3, 1992 * 'there are no more excuses for simple sensationalism on this subject ... Much credit for the advance must go to Beryl Rawson particularly (but not solely) for her organization of and contributions to conferences on the Roman family. The papers of the 1981 conference were published in 1986 and the volume remains indispensable... she provides a very useful overview of the life within the family of the growing child, she does well to lay emphasis on the more public aspects of family life, as well as the physical environment of the home.' * Tim G. Parkin, Journal of Roman Studies *