Translations of Tutto su Roma antica. Translations of Tutto su Roma antica.
Contents:
THE METROPOLIS IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE: -- The town plan of Augustus -- Agrippa's labours -- Augustus the restorer -- HOUSES AND FURNISHINGS: -- The patrician house -- The inner rooms -- Working-class living conditions -- Furnishings -- FAMILY LIFE: -- The family and the patria potestas -- Daily occupations -- The slaves -- Boys' education -- Children's games -- Girls' education -- Marriage -- Birth -- The last farewell -- SCHOOLS AND CULTURE: -- Classrooms and teaching aids -- Wax tablets, pens and ink -- Books: papyrus and parchment -- Public readings and libraries -- Physical education -- MARKET, KITCHEN AND TABLE: -- The table of rich and poor -- When and how did they eat? -- Private and official banquets -- Hunger among the very poor -- DRESS: FASHION AND TRADITION: -- Cloaks -- Women's dress -- Hairdressing -- Shoes -- Trinkets and jewellery [sic] -- AT THE THERMAE: BATHS AND RECREATION FOR ALL -- The bath -- Public baths -- The Stabian thermae -- The Forum baths at Pompeii -- The baths of Agrippa, the Stagnum -- The Romans and the baths -- The baths of Nero -- The baths of Caracalla -- Baths in the provinces -- COUNTRY LIFE: -- The smallholding -- The large estate -- The villa and the familia rustica -- The country house -- The suburban villa -- The countryman's tools -- Cultivation: Method and produce -- CRAFTS AND INDUSTRY: -- Roman craftsmen -- Italic crafts -- Industry in the provinces -- Slaves and industry -- The artisans -- Small home industries -- LAWYERS AND LAW COURTS: -- Justice and the State -- The Judges -- The formulae -- Trials -- The Public at trials -- Lawyers and jurists -- MEDICINE: HALF SCIENCE, HALF MAGIC -- Doctors' privileges -- Asclepiades and Galen -- Gaius Stertinius Xenophon -- Empirical and magical medicine -- THE THEATRE: ACTORS AND AUDIENCES -- Religious significance of the feriae -- The games as an instrument of government -- The theatre -- What the plays were like -- Stardom -- CIRCUS AND AMPHITHEATRE: -- The circus games -- The amphitheatre -- The venationes -- The gladiators -- RELIGION, RITES AND PRIESTS: -- The most ancient gods of the Romans -- Foreign deities -- Domestic cults and the cult of the dead -- Sacred places and priests -- Sacred rites: omens and divinations -- The sacred calendar of the Romans -- Religious reform under Augustus -- POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: -- The decline of the Republic -- Senate and senators -- The principality -- The comitia -- The cursus honorum -- Power of the judiciary -- Provinces, municipalities, and colonies -- Taxation -- Money -- THE ARMY THAT CONQUERED THE WORLD: -- Officers and men -- Equipment and arms -- The encampment -- Life around the encampment -- The army on the march -- The army in battle -- Fortifications and siege warfare -- Engines of war -- The engineers -- Bridges -- Supplies -- The triumph -- Military rewards and punishments -- The Roman Navy -- VOYAGES, ROADS, AND VEHICLES: -- The great highways -- How they travelled [sic] -- The post -- Inns and innkeepers -- Travelling [sic] clothes -- SEA TRAVEL: -- The Roman ship -- The great sea routes -- The ports -- River and lake navigation -- THE ARTS UNDER AUGUSTUS: -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Music and dancing -- INDEX -- INDEX TO CONTENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)407599
LCCN:
67015663
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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