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Crook/D/D1/6/11
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GB 275 Crook/D/D1/6/11
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ALS from Richard Saller, Department of History, University of Chicago.
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- 20 Aug 1998 (Creation)
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2 p. paper
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Notes that Crook was right to warn of 'taking Terentia as typical'. He mentions that wealthy Romans depended on slaves and fieldmen to manage the estate and women were not in so different a position from men; paterfamilias most commonly meant estate-owners.