Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (Revised and Expanded)

revised and expanded Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5992-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 242 g

In Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Lionel Casson offers a lively introduction to the society of the times. Instead of following the standard procedure of social history, he presents a series of vignettes focusing on the "ways of life" of various members of that society, from the slave to the emperor. The book opens with a description of the historical context and includes examination of topics such as the family, religion, urban and rural life, and leisure activities. This revised edition of Casson's engaging work, originally published in 1975 as Daily Life in Ancient Rome, includes two new chapters as well as full documentation of the sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casson, Lionel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. The Times
Chapter 2. The Family
Chapter 3. On The Farm
Chapter 4. In The City
Chapter 5. A Roman Gentleman
Chapter 6. The Slave
Chapter 7. Two Resurrected Cities
Chapter 8. The Soldier
Chapter 9. Many Gods
Chapter 10. Fun and Games
Chapter 11. On The road
Chapter 12. The Engineer
Chapter 13. The Emperor
Appendix: Table of Roman Emperors
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Leseproben

"This book presents a series of concise sketches of key phases of life in the Roman world during its greatest period, the peaceful and prosperous years of the first and second centuries A.D.: what life was like in the city, in the countryside, on the road; what it was like in the various levels of society. The sketches are fashioned to reveal how the inevitable cycle from birth to death that we all share played out in the circumstances of this very special age."—from Everyday Live in Ancient Rome

Über Autor(innen)

Casson, Lionel
Lionel Casson is a professor emeritus of classics at New York University and has written many books about life in the ancient world, including Travel in the Ancient World, Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, and Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, all available from Johns Hopkins.

Lionel Casson is professor emeritus of classics at New York University and has written many books about life in the ancient world, including Travel in the Ancient World, and Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, both available from Johns Hopkins.