Invisible Romans

Name: Invisible Romans
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ISBN: 9780674284227

ISBN-10: 0674284224

ISBN-13: 9780674284227

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Authors: Robert Knapp

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What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire to light.He seeks out the ordinary folk laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the histories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robert Knapp is Professor Emeritus in the Classics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.