Society and politics in ancient Rome
Subtitle: essays and sketches
By: by Frank Frost Abbott .
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Rome -- Social conditions; Rome -- Politics and government; Rome -- Civilization -- History
Notes: Most of the papers reprinted from various periodicals. cf. Prefatory note
Table of contents: title: Municipal politics in Pompeii.; title: The story of two oligarchies.; title: Women and public affairs under the Roman Republic.; title: Roman women in the trades and professions.; title: The theatre as a factor in Roman politics under the Republic.; title: Petronius: a study in ancient realism.; title: A Roman Puritan [Persius]; title: Petrarch's letters to Cicero.; title: Literature and the common people of Rome.; title: The career of a Roman student.; title: Some spurious inscriptions and their authors.; title: The evolution of the modern forms of the letters of our alphabet