Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 38, 2020

This volume of the journal contains 7 papers and 9 reviews. The contributions deal with military families in the limes zones of the Imperium Romanum in the 1st to 3rd century A.D. and their family life despite the "ban on marriage" [Stoll], the economic mentality of the middle Roman Republic [Ruffing], rare and recent Greek professional titles [Diethart, part II], the value of the epithet philoromaios on the Royal Coinage of King Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia [van Wijlick], on the "liberty" of Lycia in Suet. Vesp. 8,4 [Deeg], military payment and market economies in warfare zones in the 4th century B.C. [Günther], and remarks on texts and the edition of P.B.U.G. inv. 351 [Reinard]. The book reviews relate to publications on Roman economic history, ancient theatres, Platonic and recent perspectives on individual and public wellbeing, the letters of Gregory of Nazianzus, research on the optio, technical innovation, entrepreneurship, and financial markets in Gaul before Caesar, trade in the Ancient Mediterranean, the bicentenary of August Boeckh's "The Public Economy of Athens", as well as the development of Augustan marriage law.