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ANGELIKA METTE-DITTMANN, Die Ehegesetze des Augustus. Eine Untersuchung im Rahmen der Gesellschaftspolitik des Princeps (Historia, Einzelschriften Heft 67). Stuttgart, 1991. 220 S. Pr. DM 68,-

ANGELIKA METTE-DITTMANN, Die Ehegesetze des Augustus. Eine Untersuchung im Rahmen der... 565 their book have access to the requisite works of reference, and have done or will do background reading in other books about the family, women, slavery, children. One can doubt whether that is a realistic assumption. It is obvious that both books can be used to some didactic pur- pose, but I remain convinced that this purpose can be served in much better ways. Of course every reader might carry off some pleasant spoils, but these could as well have been taken from a dif- ferent sort of book. The contents of both collections are not so remarkable that they could make me forget my misgivings about the genre as a whole. All I can see is 600 pages on which much energy and ingenuity have been spent, and which are now ready to be misused. At least Shelton has tried to prevent such misuse from occurring, Gardner and Wiedemann seem to lay all their trust in either the reader's acumen or the eloquence of the source mate- rial. But the first cannot be taken for granted and is actually the authors' responsibility to help to establish and support, and the second is non-existent. The non-specialist users http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

ANGELIKA METTE-DITTMANN, Die Ehegesetze des Augustus. Eine Untersuchung im Rahmen der Gesellschaftspolitik des Princeps (Historia, Einzelschriften Heft 67). Stuttgart, 1991. 220 S. Pr. DM 68,-

Mnemosyne , Volume 47 (4): 565 – Jan 1, 1994

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Brill
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852594X00456
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565 their book have access to the requisite works of reference, and have done or will do background reading in other books about the family, women, slavery, children. One can doubt whether that is a realistic assumption. It is obvious that both books can be used to some didactic pur- pose, but I remain convinced that this purpose can be served in much better ways. Of course every reader might carry off some pleasant spoils, but these could as well have been taken from a dif- ferent sort of book. The contents of both collections are not so remarkable that they could make me forget my misgivings about the genre as a whole. All I can see is 600 pages on which much energy and ingenuity have been spent, and which are now ready to be misused. At least Shelton has tried to prevent such misuse from occurring, Gardner and Wiedemann seem to lay all their trust in either the reader's acumen or the eloquence of the source mate- rial. But the first cannot be taken for granted and is actually the authors' responsibility to help to establish and support, and the second is non-existent. The non-specialist users

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