"Frier's Casebook is the perfect introduction to Roman legal reasoning. The student is led not to memorize doctrines but to participate in the process of developing principles to use in analyzing concrete situations. Both the achievements and the failures of the Roman jurists come alive under Frier's probing discussion questions, and many fascinating social realities become concrete. It is hard to imagine a textbook which makes teaching so much fun for teacher and student alike."--Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University