A cabinet of Roman curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire /
McKeown, J. C.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Family life -- Women -- Names -- Education -- The army -- Romans at sea -- The law -- Farming -- Medicine -- Religion and superstition -- The life of the mind -- Foreigners -- Slaves -- Animals -- Spectacles -- Food and drink -- Decadence -- Buildings -- Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Toilets -- Not for the puritanical -- Tempus fugit -- Kings, consuls, and emperors.