A cabinet of Roman curiosities strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire
Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant langua...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47047872*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
