| Description |
xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Naming and honour -- Wealth and poverty -- Slaves and freedmen -- The organization of Roman space -- Roman houses -- The family -- The army -- Living in Rome -- Political life in the city -- Time and the Romans -- Measuring time -- The Roman calendar and festivities -- The ages of man -- The body : moral and physical aspects -- Clothing, finery and bathing -- Food, banqueting and the pleasures of the evening |
| Summary |
This is a vivid and intimate account of everyday life in ancient Rome during the Republic, from the downfall of the kings in 509 BC to the seizure of power by Augustus in 27 BC. Drawing widely on rich contemporary sources, Florence Dupont recreates the public and private lives, rituals, actions, institutions, and religion of the Roman Republic. She shows how Roman culture and society revolved around one kind of individual, the Roman citizen, whose roles encompassed soldier, voter, estate-owner, householder and slave-master, paterfamilias, priest, party-goer, farmer and city-dweller. It was citizenship, she reveals, that shaped Roman notions of space, time, human nature and the human body |
| Analysis |
Roman Empire |
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Rome Social life and customs |
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Social life History, B.C.509 - B.C.27 |
| Notes |
Translation of: Vie quotidienne du citoyen romain sous la République |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-298) and index |
| Notes |
English translation of: La vie quotidienne du citoyen romain sous la republique, 1989 |
| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111081
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| Author |
Woodall, Christopher, 1953-
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| LC no. |
92011082 |
| ISBN |
0631178775 |
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0631193952 (paperback) |
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