Daily life in ancient Rome

Daily life in ancient Rome

by Dupont, Florence

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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,…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Daily life in ancient Rome / Florence Dupont ; translated by Christopher Woodall.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Blackwell
  • Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 314 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0631178775, 9780631178774
  • oclc:ocm25788455
  • LC Classification:DG78
  • Dewey Decimal:937/.02

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Manners and customs Roman Rome Rome -- Social life and customs Rome (Empire) SOCIAL

Writers

Dupont, Florence

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