ABSTRACT
In the now quite voluminous literature dealing with the work of Max Weber, it is surprising how few commentators have addressed his writings on antiquity. 1 We say surprising because, as already noted above, Weber produced two major books concerned with antiquity, and many of his other writings were concerned with it as well. Thus, it is of more than just passing interest, both for the history of antiquity and also as regards an understanding of Weber’s later work, to look once again at the early phase of his career and to trace the lines of development issuing from it.
