The common people of ancient Rome
Subtitle: studies of Roman life and literature
By: by Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Social conditions; Latin language; Study and teaching; Latin literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: How Latin became the language of the world; title: The Latin of the common people; title: The poetry of the common people of Rome: I. Their metrical epitaphs. II. Their dedicatory and ephemeral verses; title: The origin of the realistic romance among the Romans; title: Diocletian's edict and the high cost of living; title: Private benefactions and their effect on the municipal life of the Roman; title: Some reflections on corporations and trade guilds; title: A Roman politician, Gaius Scribonius Curio; title: Gauis Matius, a friend of Caesar.