Roman social history; a sourcebook

Reference & Research Book News, Nov, 2008

Roman social history; a sourcebook.

Ed. by Tim Parkin and Arthur J. Pomeroy.

Routledge

2007

387 pages

$37.95

Paperback

HN10

Parkin (ancient history, U. of Manchester) and Pomeroy (classics, Victoria U., New Zealand) have assembled primary documents--many excerpted but some complete and even a few quite long--revealing such aspects as social class, family and household, slavery, poverty, the legal system and courts, and leisure and games. Almost all come from the early high empire during about the first two centuries AD. A chronology, extensive maps, life expectancy, hierarchy, and weights and measures are among the auxiliary information.

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