A cabinet of Roman curiosities
Subtitle: strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire
By: J. C. McKeown.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780195393750
Subjects: Rome -- Civilization -- Miscellanea; Rome -- History -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea
Description: The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly fits the conventional view of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army and a very logical and well ordered language -- publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Family life; title: Women; title: Names; title: Education; title: The army; title: Romans at sea; title: The law; title: Farming; title: Medicine; title: Religion & superstition; title: The life of the mind; title: Foreigners; title: Slaves; title: Animals; title: Spectacles; title: Food & drink; title: Decadence; title: buildings; title: Pompeii & Herculaneum; title: Toilets; title: Not for the puritanical; title: Tempus fugit; title: Kings, consuls & emperors.