The contribution of the book lies not only in these impressive historiographical analyses, and the opening up of new vistas of possible research, but also in Muehlberger’s analysis of late antique Christian texts and exposition of the ways in which thinking about death came to form the Christian’s ethical, physical, etc. choices in antiquity.

Dr. Laura Nasrallah reflects on the binary between representation and real in her reading of Bia in Antiquity.