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Invisible Romans / Robert Knapp.
- Title
- Invisible Romans / Robert Knapp.
- Author
- Knapp, Robert C.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- 371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), plan; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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, astrological writings, and even the New Testament.
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- Note
- First published in London in 2011 by Profile Books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- Valedictory.
- ISBN
- 9780674061996 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011019978
- OCLC
- 709670266
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library