The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series… Copious illustrative materials—paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life… Magnificent.

- Roger Shattuck (reviewing <i>A History of Private Life</i>), New York Times Book Review

This series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation.

- Andrew Freedman (reviewing <i>A History of Private Life</i>), Financial Times

This compact book—which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life—is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans—so much of it Hellenic—that later gave way to Christianity. The civilization, culture, literature, art, and even religion of Rome are discussed in this masterly work by a leading scholar.
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This compact book—which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life—is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans—so much of it Hellenic—that later gave way to Christianity.
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Introduction From Mother's Womb to Last Will and Testament Marriage Slavery The Household and Its Freed Slaves Where Public Life Was Private "Work" and Leisure Patrimony Public Opinion and Utopia Pleasures and Excesses Tranquilizers Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674777712
Publisert
1997-10-01
Utgiver
Harvard University Press; The Belknap Press
Vekt
435 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Veyne is Professor at the Collège de France.