Dr. Cahill's book represents an important turning point for feminist scholarship on rape and sexual violence in the early 2000s. It is a book that fundamentally shifted my own thinking about rape and how to apply modern theories about sexual violence to antiquity, enhancing our ability to understand this phenomenon in the early Christian world and imagination. I have returned to this book many times over the years, and I hope that it will remain a touch point for others seeking to challenge their thinking about rape and sexual violence.