Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire; Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Daily Life in Ancient Rome This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the spectacles, and the day's routines are reconstructed from an immense fund of archaeological evid...
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 10 November 2003
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
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- Categories: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780300101867 ISBN 10: 0300101864
- Sales rank: 382,013
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Full description for Daily Life in Ancient Rome
This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the spectacles, and the day's routines are reconstructed from an immense fund of archaeological evidence and from vivid descriptions by ancient poets, satirists, letter-writers, and novelists--from Petronius to Pliny the Younger. In a new Introduction, the eminent classicist Mary Beard appraises the book's enduring--and sometimes surprising--influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date bibliographic essay.
