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Invisible Romans /

Robert Knapp brings to light the laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. The lives of these invisible Romans emerge from graffiti, incantations, fables, astrol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knapp, Robert C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Edición:First Harvard University press edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : seeing the invisible
  • In the middle: ordinary men
  • Lives of their own: ordinary women
  • Subjection and survival: the poor
  • Coping in bondage: slaves
  • After slavery: freedmen
  • A living at arms: soldiers
  • Sex for sale: prostitutes
  • Fame and death: gladiators
  • Beyond the law: bandits and pirates.