Daily Life in Ancient Rome (1989)

by Florence Dupont

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This is a vivid and intimate account of everyday life in ancient Rome during the Republic, from the downfall of the kings in 509 BC to the seizure of power by Augustus in 27 BC. Drawing widely on rich contemporary sources, Florence Dupont recreates the public and private lives, rituals, actions, institutions, and religion of the Roman Republic. She shows how Roman culture and society revolved around one kind of individual, the Roman citizen, whose roles encompassed soldier, voter, estate-owner, householder and slave-master, paterfamilias, priest, party-goer, farmer and city-dweller. It was citizenship, she reveals, that shaped Roman notions of space, time, human nature and the human body.… (more)

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Most histories of the Roman Republic cover wars and conquests, roads and architecture. This one tells us about how the people of Rome in the centuries prior to the Empire lived. It may suffer a bit from translation, but it's interesting. Their culture was much different from ours. In some ways, it seems oppressive, barbaric, but in others surprisingly civilized. (

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DLMorrese | Oct 14, 2016 |

Interesting book, but I can't like the Romans as much as the author seems to. Terry Jones' _Barbarians_ seems a clearer picture of Rome was all about--destroying whatever was not Rome.

ritaer | Oct 4, 2012 |

If there was ever anything that you wanted to know about living in ancient Rome, then Dupont will cover it in this book. Family, children, business, military, food, dining, etc -- the culture is discussed at length in this book. This is a very great resource for historians and enthusiasts alike. Overall -- the book was comprised of paragraphs covering all the topics in republican Rome (before imperial Rome). (

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Daily Life in Ancient Rome

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La vie quotidienne du citoyen romain sous la République, 509-27 av. J.-C.

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Le citoyen romain sous la République, 509-27 avant J.C.

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This is a vivid and intimate account of everyday life in ancient Rome during the Republic, from the downfall of the kings in 509 BC to the seizure of power by Augustus in 27 BC. Drawing widely on rich contemporary sources, Florence Dupont recreates the public and private lives, rituals, actions, institutions, and religion of the Roman Republic. She shows how Roman culture and society revolved around one kind of individual, the Roman citizen, whose roles encompassed soldier, voter, estate-owner, householder and slave-master, paterfamilias, priest, party-goer, farmer and city-dweller. It was citizenship, she reveals, that shaped Roman notions of space, time, human nature and the human body.

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