Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
Autor Guy de la Bédoyèreen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2024
Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient Rome was stimulating, dynamic, and often downright dangerous. The Romans relaxed and gossiped in baths, stole precious water from aqueducts, and partied and dined to excess. Everyone from senators to the enslaved crowded into theaters and circuses to watch their favorite singers, pantomime, and comedies and scream their approval at charioteers. The lucky celebrated their accomplishments with elaborate tombs. Amid pervasive inequality and brutality, beauty also flourished through architecture, poetry, and art.
From the smells of fragrant cookshops and religious sacrifices to the cries of public executions and murderous electoral mobs, Guy de la Bédoyère’s Populus draws on a host of historical and literary sources to transport us into the intensity of daily life at the height of ancient Rome.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226832944
ISBN-10: 0226832945
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 32 color plates, 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226832945
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 32 color plates, 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Guy de la Bédoyère has written many books on the ancient world, including, most recently, Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier and Pharaohs of the Sun. He was part of Channel 4’s archaeology series Time Team for many years, has lectured widely, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Cuprins
Foreword and Introduction
1 : Cityscape
2 : The Roman Mindset
3 : Domus et Familia
4 : Sex and Passion
5 : Cursus Honorum
6 : The Frightened City
7 : Slaves
8 : Splendid Accessories: Freedmen and Freedwomen
9 : Dining Out and Eating In
10 : Doctors and Disease
11 : Enfeebled by Baths
12 : Spectacles
13 : Animals in Rome
14 : Gods, Shrines, and Omens
15 : From Rome to Eternity
Epilogue
Appendix 1 : Dates
Appendix 2 : Roman Society
Appendix 3 : Sources
Appendix 4 : Visiting the World of Populus
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
1 : Cityscape
2 : The Roman Mindset
3 : Domus et Familia
4 : Sex and Passion
5 : Cursus Honorum
6 : The Frightened City
7 : Slaves
8 : Splendid Accessories: Freedmen and Freedwomen
9 : Dining Out and Eating In
10 : Doctors and Disease
11 : Enfeebled by Baths
12 : Spectacles
13 : Animals in Rome
14 : Gods, Shrines, and Omens
15 : From Rome to Eternity
Epilogue
Appendix 1 : Dates
Appendix 2 : Roman Society
Appendix 3 : Sources
Appendix 4 : Visiting the World of Populus
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
Recenzii
"Diverting . . . Populus draws on such archives of the quotidian to make ancient Rome seem both wonderfully weird and convincingly real. . . . Populus abounds in such peeks beneath the surface of 'official' Rome. . . .If Populus works best as a smorgasbord, it is an appealing one indeed. With his wide array of sources, his eye for compelling details and his engaging prose style, de la Bédoyère keeps the reader eager for more—and wondering what strange facet of Roman life will be served up next."
"Providing considerable detail in an easygoing style, this brings to pulsing life the average Roman’s daily existence. Roman history buffs will be thrilled."
"Compellingly written, Populus is an excellent introduction to everyday life in ancient Rome, accounting for people at all levels of society and showing the vitality of Urbs Roma and the sources that shed light on it. . . . Summing Up: Recommended."
"De la Bédoyère paints a vibrant picture, giving readers a lively and immersive look at life in this legendary ancient city."
"Roman life in all its familiarity and absurdity is the subject of de la Bédoyère’s rollicking new book, Populus. Drawing on letters, inscriptions, plays, poems, architecture, coinage and the preserved contents of Herculaneum’s sewers, de la Bédoyère sets out to reconstruct how people of all stations lived. What they ate, smelt, saw and believed; how they supported, entertained, protected and thought about themselves. . . . The anecdote-heavy approach in Populus isn’t just lively, it’s consequential. The norms that governed Roman life were – like ours – never set down as written rules. They were flexible, open to reinterpretation, the result of constant negotiation between past ideals and present realities. Thanks to de la Bédoyère, they emerge here as they would have been felt: the cumulative product of thousands of decisions made by individual Romans every day."
"De la Bédoyère, a former expert on the Channel 4 archaeology series Time Team, has delivered a comprehensive and very well referenced appraisal of city life, although it has been constructed rather higgledy-piggledy and without an overarching theme, much like the city itself. Where the archaeological record in Rome is patchy, he extrapolates on how life must have been from discoveries at sites such as Pompeii and Ostia as well as the vast written evidence, including letters and inscriptions."
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A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world
Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a host of others including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bédoyère takes the reader into a world of violent politics, civil disorder, unspeakably brutal entertainments, extravagance, decadence, eroticism, exotica, and staggering inequality, participated in daily by the Roman people from the hyper-rich elite to the lowliest slaves. Populus places those who experienced Rome in person at the forefront of their story, from the rabble-rousing senator Clodius Pulcher to Pliny the Elder and Hortensia who defended the rights of women in court to the ex-slave and celebrity baker Eurysaces.
'A superb combination of wit, first-rate research and panache. Highly recommended!' TONY ROBINSON
'A rollicking new book... de la Bédoyère's command of these disparate sources is masterful, and his curation of them forms the backbone of the book' HONOR CARGILL-MARTIN, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world
Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a host of others including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bédoyère takes the reader into a world of violent politics, civil disorder, unspeakably brutal entertainments, extravagance, decadence, eroticism, exotica, and staggering inequality, participated in daily by the Roman people from the hyper-rich elite to the lowliest slaves. Populus places those who experienced Rome in person at the forefront of their story, from the rabble-rousing senator Clodius Pulcher to Pliny the Elder and Hortensia who defended the rights of women in court to the ex-slave and celebrity baker Eurysaces.
'A superb combination of wit, first-rate research and panache. Highly recommended!' TONY ROBINSON
'A rollicking new book... de la Bédoyère's command of these disparate sources is masterful, and his curation of them forms the backbone of the book' HONOR CARGILL-MARTIN, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH