"One really must admire Harvey squo;s achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Romersquo;s empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviors. His translations of the original texts are superbhdash;both accurate and elegant. And he contextualizes his chosen passages with a series of remarkably economical but solidly reliable introductions. In a word, Harveyasquo;s sourcebook strikes me as the best now available for a single-semester undergraduate course."
edash;T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers Universityndash;New Brunswick
