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Brent D. Shaw

Brent D. Shaw is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University ofPennsylvania. His most recent book is Spartacus and the Slave Wars.

Loving the Poor

Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

by Peter Brown

November 21, 2002 issue

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