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HOPKINS, K., Death and Renewal. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1983. XX,(2),276p. Hardbound. Spine with gilt titled vignette. Series: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 2. 'The first and last chapters of this book are mainly descriptive accounts of gladiatorial games and Roman funerary customs as features of Roman society. The two central chapters (...) contain intensive studies of senatorial office-holding under Republic and Principate, both written in collaboration with Graham Burton. These studies are constructed using a simple tool, the extent to which holders of the consulship were drawn from the descendants of consuls. (...). The book provides some stimulating discussion from new viewpoints of an important subject which is often overshadowed by the history of events or lost in the history of individuals and individual families. When it is not being used as a club with which to belabour other scholars, the heritability of the consulship is shown to be a worthwhile historical tool. At the same time, the statistical approach adopted has been so sharply divorced here from other sorts of history as to place limits on its effectivenss.' (P.P. DUNCAN-JONES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1984, pp.270-74). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 59.50 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780521249911