What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire to light.
He seeks out the ordinary folk—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. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the histories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, magical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and even the New Testament.
Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far removed from our own, but one that resonates through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed and ignored them.
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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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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition Thus. Stated first Harvard University Press edition, 2011. Historian Robert Knapp tells of the lives of ordinary people who lived in the ancient Roman empire. Per the jacket flap, the author ". . .seeks out the ordinary folk--laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators." With black & white photos scattered through the text, and a section of plates bearing color photos of artifacts and scenes described in the book. This work originally published in London by Profile Books, Ltd. in 2011. --- In white paper-covered boards backed in dark red cloth with titling in gilt to spine. Volume wrapped in jacket with color photo the College of the Augustali in Italy. --- With prior owner's circular embossed stamp to p.13 and inked date to front free endpaper, else a bright, tightly-bound, newish copy. Newish, unclipped jacket ($29.95) lacks damages worthy of mention; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; [6], 371 pages. Codice articolo 89490
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Condizione: Gut. 371 Seiten / p., 30 Abb. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire to light. -- He seeks out the ordinary folklaboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiatorswho formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the histories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, magical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and even the New Testament. -- Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far removed from our own, but one that resonates through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed and ignored them. ISBN 9780674061996 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 653 17,1 x 3,2 x 24,8 cm, Originalhalbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket. Codice articolo 1179189
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