Sabine Hubner is Privatdozentin of Ancient History at Freie Universitaet Berlin and holds a research appointment at the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. Among her publications are a monograph on the clergy in the later Roman Empire (Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spatantiken Kleinasiens, 2005), a co-edited volume, Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (with Christopher Ratzan, Cambridge University Press, 2009), and many articles in international journals and handbooks. She is in the process of editing another volume, The Extended and Joint Family in the Ancient Medite...