History / History -European & World . / Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Cowell, F.R.

• Book Title: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
• Author: Cowell, F.R.
• ISBN: 0713416637
• Publisher: Batsford
• Year Published: December 1961
• Our Price: £8.09 GBP ($13.34 USD)
• Description: Batsford 1961: first edition, hardcover in dust jacket: 208 pages including index. Synopsis: A comprehensive history covering the period from the building of Rome to the beginning of 5C AD. Its contents are arranged as follows:- 1. The City of Rome (rise and growth, apartments and houses, furniture, gardens etc ) 2. Growing up in ancient Rome (education, schools, schoolmasters, telling the time, weights and measures etc) 3. Family life (Home-life, women, size of families, beauty treatment, barbers, clothes, food, kitchens, wine, health and hygiene, death and burial etc).4. Slavery (origins and development, cost, treatment, revolts, freedom etc) 5. Earning a living. (Industry, trade, transport, building, clothing, milling , baking, gardening, professions -lawyers, doctors, surgeons, writers, etc ) 6. Leisure (work and leisure. The baths. High society. Cultural interests. Shows and spectacles etc)7. Religion (traditional belief, state religion, festivals and games, astrology, mystery cults, the rise of Christianity.)Condition:Price corner removed edges of dust jacket rubbed and with small repair: red cloth cover slightly marked; contents very clean: overall clean and good.
• Condition: Used- Like New
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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