Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
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Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero is a book by W. Warde Fowler, M.A. The prefatory note says the book was originally intended to be a companion to Professor Tucker's Life in Ancient Athens, but that the plan was abandoned. The prefatory note says that at schools and universities the great writers of the last age of the Republic are read, but that there is no book in our language which supplies a picture of life and manners.
One passage on the site of Rome says it had once been crowded only when Roman farmers took refuge within the walls with their families, flocks, and herds on the threatening appearance of an enemy, and that by the time of Cicero an enormous population had gathered. One chapter sets out to sketch the conditions under which it was possible for such a vast slave system to arise and flourish, and the economical and ethical results of it both in city and country.
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- W. Warde Fowler
- Pages
- 247
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- English
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