Promotional Information

An evocative study of the average Roman: when he got up, when he ate, how he earned a living and why a career in the army was greatly sought after, in spite of the dangers. -- Time Traveler's Guide to the Roman Empire, Channel4.com

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. The Times
Chapter 2. The Family
Chapter 3. On The Farm
Chapter 4. In The City
Chapter 5. A Roman Gentleman
Chapter 6. The Slave
Chapter 7. Two Resurrected Cities
Chapter 8. The Soldier
Chapter 9. Many Gods
Chapter 10. Fun and Games
Chapter 11. On The road
Chapter 12. The Engineer
Chapter 13. The Emperor
Appendix: Table of Roman Emperors
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the Author

Lionel Casson is professor emeritus of classics at New York University and has written many books about life in the ancient world, including Travel in the Ancient World, and Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

A series of concise sketches of key phases of life in the Roman world during its greatest period, the era of peace and prosperity in the first and second centuries A.D. Of Ages Past Magazine I was reading one of Casson's books [ Everyday Life in Ancient Rome] while waiting for [my daughter]... She was late, which would ordinarily have thrown me into a fever of apprehension, but on this occasion I was so wrapped up in the book, I didn't notice. In fact, when she did come back, quite late, I was annoyed because she had interrupted me before I had finished the book. I told Casson this, and he was infinitely pleased. -- Isaac Asimov I. Asimov: A Memoir