Daily life in ancient Rome
Subtitle: the people and the city at the height of the empire
By: by Jérôme Carcopino ; edited and annotated by Henry T. Rowell ; translated by E.O. Lorimer ; with a new introduction and bibliographic essay by Mary Beard.
Contributors: Rowell, Henry T.; Beard, Mary, 1955-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Yale Nota bene
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: City and town life -- Italy -- Rome -- History; Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs; Rome -- History -- Antonines, 96-192
Work titles: Vie quotidienne à l'apogée de l'empire.
Description: "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 classicist Mary Beard appraises the book's enduring - and sometimes surprising - influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date Bibliographic Essay."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Donated by Yale University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.