Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Rome

by Barghusen, Joan D.; Webb, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780822532132
• ISBN10: 0822532131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group

Summary

The City of the Seven Hills has grown from a tiny,settlement of mud-walled huts to one of the,world's major capitals, housing more than three,million people. Discover the Forum, or,marketplace, the Roman Republic's centre of public,life, and pitching in as the Romans build and,rebuild their city, one catastrophe after another.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(6)
Early Republic (509 B.C.-146 B.C..)
Home and Public Life	6	(2)
Roman Religion	8	(2)
Afternoon at the Circus	10	(2)
Streets of Rome	12	(2)
Late Republic and Early Empire (146 B.C.-A.D.64)
The Roman Army	14	(2)
Slaves in Rome	16	(2)
The Age of Augustus	18	(2)
Dinner for Rich and Poor	20	(2)
Foreign Religions	22	(2)
The City Grows	24	(2)
Late Empire (First to Fourth Centuries A.D.)
Rome in Flames	26	(2)
Spectacles in the Colosseum	28	(2)
Public Baths	30	(2)
Rome Becomes Christian	32	(2)
Middle Ages (Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries)
Wars, Floods, and Disease	34	(2)
Pilgrims Come to Rome	36	(2)
Field of Towers	38	(2)
First Holy Year	40	(2)
Renaissance (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Cola di Rienzo, Hero of the People	42	(2)
Carnival	44	(2)
Rome and Its People in 1527	46	(2)
Rebuilding St. Peter's	48	(2)
Renaissance Women	50	(2)
Modern Times
The Grand Tour	52	(2)
The Capital of Italy	54	(2)
The Early Twentieth Century	56	(2)
Modern Rome	58	(2)
Rome Timeline	60	(2)
Books about Italy and Rome	62	(1)
Index	63	(1)
About the Author and Illustrator	64