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REVIEWS ] 283Still, the author's case is subtly argued, insightful, comparative wherever possible, and thought-provoking, even when not always commanding assent. Linguistic, economic, and sociological insights abound. Witness the semantics of unfreedom, the difference between basileus and wanax, the kinds of conditional property and dependence, and the decline of women's rights in parallel with the enfranchisement of the smallholder (48, 201, 92, 95, i8i, 47, 114, io8, IIS).