The Days and Hours of the Roman Calendar The Roman Begins the Day The Barber The Matron Dresses Symptoms of Decomposition Primary Education The Routine Teaching of the Grammarian Impractical Rhetoric The Decay of Traditional ReligionĦ. The Weakening of Paternal Authority Betrothal and Marriage The Roman Matron Feminism and Demoralization Divorce and the Instability of the Family Romans and Foreigners Slavery and Manumission The Confusion of Social Values Living Standards and the Plutocracy

The Growth of the Citys Population 26 II. The Precincts of Rome and the Citys True Extent 20 j. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE In rendering quotations from Martial and Juvenal, Tacitus, Petronius, and Pliny the Younger, I have gratefully adopted-less often adapted - the phrasing of the Loeb Classics, edited by T. TO PROFESSOR EMILE SERGENT The Master of my son Antoine, my Doctor, and my Friend This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wymun Ltd, London, Reading, and Fakcnham Set in Monotype Bembo Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty, Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia First published 1941 Published in Pelican Books 1956 Reprinted in Peregrine Books 1962, 1964 This translation Copyright © E. ROWELL Professor of Latin in the Johns Hopkins University

JÉRÔME CARCOPINO Director of the École Française de Rome Member of the Institute of France EDITED WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES BY PEREGRINE BOOKS Y23 DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME JÉRÔME CARCOPINOĭAILY LIFE IN A N C I E N T ROME THE PEOPLE AND THE CITY AT THE HEIGHT OF THE EMPIRE BY

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