Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 39, 2021

This volume of the journal contains 8 papers and 10 reviews. The contributions deal with more Greek professional titles, mainly of the Byzantine Period [Diethart, part III], specialisation in crafts and trades in the Roman Empire [Ruffing], craftsmanship in Palmyra and Rome in the 3rd century A.D. [Gnoli], a potential social contract in slave trade [Jördens], piracy in the Mediterranean from Hellenism to Late Antiquity [Klär], the Seres in the Carmen de bello Actiaco [Geus, Günther, Sørensen], Cicero’s Pro Cluentio from a Chinese perspective [Zhang], and the correspondence between the 19th century philologists A. Boeck and K. O. Müller as a case study [Chen]. The book reviews relate to publications on the ancient historian Mikhail Rostovtsev, activity of late antique judges in Codex Theodosianus, the 1st volume of a Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies, new biographies of Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, a new edition of Ambrose of Milan’s Political Letters, antique monarchies, the festschrift for Javier Arce with the title of Academica libertas, sumptuary specialists and consumer elites in Rome’s World Order as well as Eutropius’ Breviarium ab urbe condita and a historical overview of it.