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DIXON, S., The Roman Family. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, 1992. XIV,279p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. Upper and lower corner front cover a tiny bit creased. 'As D. explains in her preface, there are two reasons why the intention of this book is not to produce a definitive or comprehensive account of the subject. Firstly, the nature and purpose of the family is currently a subject of active public debate. Secondly, she herself remarks on the great changes in focus, in the study of the history of the family, during the few years she spent on this book (...). The work therefore has something of the character of an interim report. The first chapter provides a good survey, useful both for specialists and for the more general reader, of past trends in scholarship on the history of the family, and the Roman family in particular. The four chapters that make up the bulk of the rest of the book concern respectively family relations and the law (Chapter Two), marriage (Three), children (Four) and the life-cycle (Five). Their contents are mainly divided between matters of law, and (more speculatively) of attitudes, in varying proportions (...). The book contains much that is sensible and thought-provoking, and does a useful service, both in summing up the results of much recent work on the Roman family, and suggesting possible future lines of approach.' (JANE F. GARDNER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1993, pp.359-360). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 17.50 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780801842009