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  • The End of Dialogue in Antiquity, and: Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity
The End of Dialogue in Antiquity Simon Goldhill, ed. New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-8874-8. Pp. viii + 266. $99
Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity Sabine R. Hübner, David M. Ratzan, eds. New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-49050-4. Pp. xvi + 333. $110.

This volume contains the following articles of interest to scholars of Late Antiquity: Gillian Clark, “Can We Talk?: Augustine and the Possibility of Dialogue”; Richard Miles, “‘Let’s (Not) Talk about It’: Augustine and the Control of Epistolary Dialogue”; Richard Lim, “Christians, Dialogues and Patterns of Sociability in Late Antiquity”; Kate Cooper, Matthew Dal Santo, “Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian ‘Afterlife’ of Classical Dialogue.”

This volume contains the following articles of interest to scholars of Late Antiquity: Raffaella Cribiore, “The Education of Orphans: A Reassessment of the Evidence of Libanius”; Geoffrey Nathan, “‘Woe to Those Making Widows their Prey and Robbing the Fatherless’: Christian Ideals and the Obligations of Stepfathers in Late Antiquity.” [End Page 383]

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