A Day in Old Rome
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An imagined visitor is led through imperial Rome in the year 134, in the reign of Hadrian, and shown what he would have seen. William Stearns Davis, a history professor at the University of Minnesota, chose that year because the city's building was nearly complete and the Empire seemed prosperous. With the emperor away, attention stays on slaves, plebeians and nobles.
The contents begin with the general look of the city, its crowded population, the country around it and the Tiber. Davis draws on Latin writers such as Horace, Juvenal, Martial and Pliny the Younger, and the book is a companion to his earlier A Day in Old Athens.
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Book facts
- Author
- William Stearns Davis
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 407
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Ancient History
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online