Daily Life in Ancient Rome The People and the City at the Height of the Empire

Name: Daily Life in Ancient Rome The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
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ISBN: 9781406761436

ISBN-10: 1406761435

ISBN-13: 9781406761436

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jerome Carcopino

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Read Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English