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A Day in Old Rome

by William Stearns Davis

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3Chapter I — The General Aspect of the City
  4. 4Chapter II — Streets and Street Life
  5. 5Chapter III — The Homes of the Lowly and of the Mighty
  6. 6Chapter IV — Roman Women and Roman Marriages
  7. 7Chapter V — Costume and Personal Adornment
  8. 8Chapter VI — Food and Drink. How the Day Is Spent. The Dinner
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Social Orders: The Slaves
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Social Orders: Freedmen, Provincials, Plebeians,…
  11. 11Chapter IX — Physicians and Funerals
  12. 12Chapter X — Children and Schooling
  13. 13Chapter XI — Books and Libraries
  14. 14Chapter XII — Economic Life of Rome: I. Banking, Shops, and Inns
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Economic Life of Rome: II. the Industrial Quarters.…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Fora, Their Life and Buildings. The Daily Journal
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Palatine and the Palace of the Cæsars. The Governm…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Prætorian Camp. The Imperial War Machine
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The Senate: A Session and a Debate
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — The Courts and the Orators. The Great Baths. The Pu…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Public Games: The Theater, the Circus, and the Am…
  22. 22Chapter XX — The Roman Religion: The Priesthoods, the Vestal Virgins
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Foreign Cults: Cybele, Isis, Mithras. The Christi…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — A Roman Villa. The Love of the Country
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — The Return of the Emperor

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