Dan-el Padilla Peralta is associate professor of classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League and the coeditor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation. Twitter @platanoclassics
Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion powerful...impressively wide-ranging...an essential read. ---Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement This book is, simply, a wonderful work of ancient history. . . . [A] seminal contribution not just to the study of the Roman Republic, but to the writing of ancient history more generally. ---James Corke-Webster, Greece & Rome