09-08-2008, 05:25 AM
Very nice! I would also recommend Jerome Carcopino’s Daily Life in Ancient Rome. The book is quite dated (published in 1940), but still one of the best general descriptions of normal life.
The table of contents:
1) The extent and population of the city
2) Houses and streets
3) Society and social classes
4) Marriage, woman, and the family
5) Education and religion
6) The morning
7) Occupations
8 ) Shows and spectacles
9) Afternoon and evening
This is what Mary Beard had to say about him:
The table of contents:
1) The extent and population of the city
2) Houses and streets
3) Society and social classes
4) Marriage, woman, and the family
5) Education and religion
6) The morning
7) Occupations
8 ) Shows and spectacles
9) Afternoon and evening
This is what Mary Beard had to say about him:
Quote:Carcopino’s pledge to his readers was to open up to them some traces of the world that lay underneath the veneer of grandeur that remains the public face of ancient Rome; to put before our eyes the scoundrels in the street-corner bar, the cooks in the kitchen, the man who stoked the boilers in the baths. No one has ever done it better.
David J. Cord
www.davidcord.com
www.davidcord.com
