Daily Life in Ancient Rome Paperback / softback - 1994
by Florence Dupont
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Details
- Title Daily Life in Ancient Rome
- Author Florence Dupont
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Malden, MA, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-10-20
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780631193951
- ISBN 9780631193951 / 0631193952
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.97 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Rome - Social life and customs, Rome - Civilization
- Dewey Decimal Code 937.02
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From the rear cover
The author describes the profound effect of Rome's increasing power and wealth. Excess, luxury and greed gradually eroded the traditional values of order, thrift, honor and liberty: citizens became transformed into subjects. 'Streets flowed with precious wines and the blood of exotic wild animals and inumerable oxen, ' she writes. 'Makeshift theaters were thrown up and bedecked with gold and ivory. In a hopeless attempt to empty both its own coffers and those of the nobility, the republic endowed the city with temples, basilicas and colonnades. But the world was too rich, too vast, and Rome, at its center, choked on all its wealth.'