Abstract
Like its predecessor, this volume consists of a series of papers about Roman society loosely linked by a common concern with the themes implicit in its title. The first and fourth papers, which deal with gladiatorial games and funerary practices respectively, are intended to convey what the Romans' experiences of, and reactions to, these things were like and how they differed from our own. The second and third, which are co-authored by Graham Burton (hereafter 'B.'), deal with social mobility into and out of the senatorial aristocracy during the late Republic and the Principate respectively. I shall accordingly discuss them in the order I, 4, 2, 3. I am not a specialist in Roman studies, and the questions to which this review will, by implication, be addressed are first, what contribution do these papers make to comparative sociology? And second, what do they take from comparative sociology? If the answer to the first is: not a great deal, and to the second: less than might have been expected, that does not diminish the importance of the topics with which Hopkins deals.
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