The social status of Roman land surveyors [Book review]

Abstract

Prof. Levente Takács, recently established as an authority on Roman Land Surveyors, has been awarded with the István Hahn Prize in 2011, and this work of his is the fourth in the series in honour of the same Late Professor István Hahn, the first three monographs having been written by Professors Thomas Köves-Zulauf, Ádám Szabó and Zsolt Simon. As Prof. Dr György Németh, Head of the Department, writes in the foreword, István Hahn lived from 1913 to 1983, was Head of the Department of Ancient History of Eötvös Loránd University, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and an internationally acknowledged expert of several areas of ancient history.