Revival: The Common People of Ancient Rome (1911): Studies of Roman Life and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138553958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 290 str.

Frank Frost Abbott

Opis

This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions.

Spis treści

1.How Latin Became the Language of the World 2.The Latin of the Common People 3.The Poetry of the Common People of Rome: I.Their Metrical Epitaphs 4.II.Their Dedicatory and Ephemeral Verses 5.The Origin of the Realistic Romance Among the Romans 6.Diocletian's Edict and the High Cost of Living 7.Private Benefactions and Their Effect on the Municipal Life of the Romans 8.Some Reflections on Corporations and Trade-Guilds 9. A Roman Politician, Gaius Scribonius Curio 10.Gaius Matius, a Friend of Cæsar 11.Index