Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul

Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul is by T. G. Tucker, with the year 1924 beside the title. The preface says the reception accorded to Life in Ancient Athens led to the present companion work, written with an eye to the same class of readers. The preface agrees with Warde Fowler, who says he firmly believes the one great hope for classical learning and education lies in the interest which the unlearned public may be brought to feel in ancient life and thought.

The text says that, taking out the year of four emperors, and counting a hundred years before and more than a hundred years after, it would be impossible to find in the history of the world any period at which peace, and probably contentment, was so widely and continuously spread. A passage on Roman dinners says that doubtless a Roman dinner too often meant over-eating and over-drinking. A description of decoration says that reliefs and medallions bedecked the frieze, ceilings were gay with stucco or coloured work, and the floors with glittering mosaics.