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A cabinet of Roman curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire /

Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKeown, J. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family life
  • Women
  • Names
  • Education
  • The army
  • Romans at sea
  • The law
  • Farming
  • Medicine
  • Religion and superstition
  • The life of the mind
  • Foreigners
  • Slaves
  • Animals
  • Spectacles
  • Food and drink
  • Decadence
  • buildings
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum
  • Toilets
  • Not for the puritanical
  • Tempus fugit
  • Kings, consuls and emperors.