Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Carcopino, Jerome
£13.00
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
By Jérôme Carcopino
Edited by Henry T. Rowell; Translated from the French by E. O. Lorimer;
Introduced by Keith Hopkins
Hardback, no dust jacket. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2004. Approx size: 25.5cm H x 17.5cm W (10” H x 7”W). 387pp. Index, Bibliography. Map on the pastedowns. Illustrated with 49 colour photographs. Illustrated cloth boards, with titles to the spine. Condition: Lightly age marked on the outer page edges; All pages present; No inscriptions; Tight, bright and clean copy. No slip case. Overall – Very good
‘Most Roman history is about emperors and aristocrats, about wars of conquest and high politics. Little attention is usually paid to ordinary folk, leading ordinary lives. Jérôme Carcopino’s exciting book, handsomely reprinted here by The Folio Society, is both confirmation and refutation of this broad generalisation. It was first published in France in 1939, and was immediately translated into English. It has been in print ever since and still sells very well. It has become a classic, without a convincing rival.’
Book condition: Very Good