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A cabinet of Roman curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKeown, J. C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Rome > Civilization > Miscellanea.
Rome > History > Miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • Family life
  • Women
  • Names
  • Education
  • The army
  • Romans at sea
  • The law
  • Farming
  • Medicine
  • Religion and superstition
  • The life of the mind
  • Foreigners
  • Slaves
  • Animals
  • Spectacles
  • Food and drink
  • Decadence
  • Buildings
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum
  • Toilets
  • Not for the puritanical
  • Tempus fugit
  • Kings, consuls, and emperors.