Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire

Jérôme Carcopino

ISBN 10: 0300101864 / ISBN 13: 9780300101867

Published by Yale University Press, 2003

About this Item

First Edition, Later Printing. Published by Yale University Press, 2003. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300101864
• ISBN 13: 9780300101867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New

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Synopsis

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 eminent 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.

“Carcopino’s pledge to his readers was to open up to them some traces of the world that lay underneath the grandeur that remains the public face of ancient Rome. . . . No one has ever done it better.”―Mary Beard, from the Introduction

About the Author

Jérôme Carcopino (1881–1970) was the author of many books on ancient Rome including César and Ovid and the Cult of Isis. Mary Beard is the author or coauthor of numerous books including The Parthenon, Classics: A Very Short Introduction, Classical Art: From Greece to Rome, and Religions of Rome.