Publication Date: January 9, 1998 ISBN-10: 019508974X ISBN-13 :978-0195089745 Edition: 2
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The Thread to family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important issues chapters arrangements translation reveals not only the ambitions and aspirations of the upper class, but the average Roman citizen. They told the successes and failures of the Roman the grand imperialist policy, but also in everyday life, happiness and hardships. Lively Romans, all the diversity of life in the second edition of the Rome provides the clearest account. In the ideal choice for Roman history, social history, Roman, Roman civilization, classic course, it will also appeal to readers interested in ancient hi
