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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Jeremy HartnettPublish date:4/3/2025Pages:204
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009536066ISBN-10:1009536060UPC:9781009536066Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:9.08 x 6.35 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTJB4TS6G
When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius' biography, as well as his wife's, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument's scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009536066ISBN-10:1009536060UPC:9781009536066Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientSize:9.08 x 6.35 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTJB4TS6G
Hartnett, Jeremy: - Jeremy Hartnett is Professor of Classics at Wabash College, where he holds the Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His book The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome (2017) was awarded the James Henry Breasted Award by the American Historical Association.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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