Yona and Davis deserve our gratitude for producing this powerful and thought-provoking look at what Romans in the late republic made of Epicureanism, with many of the essays examining the degree to which “Roman” Epicureanism represented a rejection of Romanitas. In successive chapters we see a range of people who felt inspired to use (or abuse) the Epicureanism that was part of the cultural air they breathed and that might just be either the answer to all of life’s problems or else mark the end of the (Roman) world. The Epicurean mantra “avoid engaging in politics” could easily be seen as marking an end to the traditional Roman quest for gloria—but might well have appealed to people living in the turbulent and bloody first century BCE. Many a stressed politician working in the fractious homo homini lupus world of the late republic probably found the idea of otium and ataraxia highly appealing – even if (like the would-be rusticus of Horace, Epode 2) he failed to act on it.