Davis imagines an intelligent visitor dropped into Rome in the year 134, under Hadrian, and shows him everything a guide could: crowded streets and tenements, palaces, marriages and clothing, the dinner party, slaves and freedmen, doctors and funerals, schools, libraries, banks, shops and inns, and the industrial quarters.
A vivid and well-informed picture of daily life in ancient Rome, ideal for students, novelists and the simply curious. Download the free EPUB.