Production and Public Powers in Classical Antiquity

the society they were making these claims to, rather than for whether they were actually substantiated in practice (a practice we are hardly in a position to retrieve), then this volume can change some of our views about the ancient world. C.'s book, then, is a great exercise in the democracy of good scholarship: it will allow new generations of scholars and students to access very, very important material, even if that may lead them to conclusions and interpretations rather different from those of C. himself.