Populus : living and dying in the wealth, smoke, and din of ancient Rome

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Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial and a host of others including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bédoyère takes the reader into a place of violent politics, unspeakably brutal entertainments, decadence, eroticism and staggering inequality,...

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Rome Civilization History

Rome Economic conditions History

Rome Religion History

Rome Social conditions History

Rome Social life and customs History

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ISBN:

9781408715154 (hardcover)
9781408715154

Description:

468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Foreword and introduction
Cityscape
The Roman mindset
Domus et familia
Sex and passion
Cursus honorum
The frightened city
Slaves
Splendid accessories : freedmen and freedwomen
Dining out and eating in
Doctors and disease
Enfeebled by baths
Spectacles
Animals in Rome
Gods, shrines, and omens
From Rome to eternity
Epilogue

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3345321

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