Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A SourcebookHackett Publishing, 2016 M02 11 - 296 pages "One really must admire Harvey’s achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome’s empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviors. His translations of the original texts are superb—both accurate and elegant. And he contextualizes his chosen passages with a series of remarkably economical but solidly reliable introductions. In a word, Harvey’s sourcebook strikes me as the best now available for a single-semester undergraduate course." —T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
Contents
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Children | 79 |
Slaves | 99 |
Three Cities in Italy | 121 |
The Army | 229 |
Life in the Country | 244 |
The Baths | 256 |
Dinner Parties | 272 |
Bars and Inns | 283 |
Public EntertainmentThe Theater and Circus | 294 |
Public EntertainmentThe Amphitheater | 309 |
Glossary | 324 |
The Urban Experience | 142 |
Housing | 151 |
Neighborhoods Water Sanitation and the Grain Supply | 164 |
The Daily Routine | 181 |
Business and Occupations | 198 |
Religion | 211 |
Works Quoted | 331 |
Bibliography | 338 |
Index | 343 |
Back Cover | 347 |
Common terms and phrases
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