Simon Swain is Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of well-known studies of the Greek literature of the Roman period and is co-editor (with Jaś Elsner and Stephen Harrison) of Severan Culture (Cambridge, 2007).

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• Introduction; Part I. English Translation of Bryson's Management of the Estate; Part II. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Text and transmission; Part III. Economy: 3. Property; 4. Slaves; Appendix. Ibn Butlān's General Treatise on Slaves; Part IV. Family: 5. The wife; 6. The boy; Appendix I. 'Plato's Exhortation Concerning the Education of Young Men'; Appendix II. 'Letter of Theano to Euboule'; Part V. Texts and translations of Bryson.

Simon Swain is Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of well-known studies of the Greek literature of the Roman period and is co-editor (with Jaś Elsner and Stephen Harrison) of Severan Culture (Cambridge, 2007).

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• Introduction; Part I. English Translation of Bryson's Management of the Estate; Part II. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Text and transmission; Part III. Economy: 3. Property; 4. Slaves; Appendix. Ibn Butlān's General Treatise on Slaves; Part IV. Family: 5. The wife; 6. The boy; Appendix I. 'Plato's Exhortation Concerning the Education of Young Men'; Appendix II. 'Letter of Theano to Euboule'; Part V. Texts and translations of Bryson.

Simon Swain is Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of well-known studies of the Greek literature of the Roman period and is co-editor (with Jaś Elsner and Stephen Harrison) of Severan Culture (Cambridge, 2007).

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• Introduction; Part I. English Translation of Bryson's Management of the Estate; Part II. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Text and transmission; Part III. Economy: 3. Property; 4. Slaves; Appendix. Ibn Butlān's General Treatise on Slaves; Part IV. Family: 5. The wife; 6. The boy; Appendix I. 'Plato's Exhortation Concerning the Education of Young Men'; Appendix II. 'Letter of Theano to Euboule'; Part V. Texts and translations of Bryson.