A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium by Évelyne Patlagean, Arthur Goldhammer, Georges Duby, Philippe Ariès, Peter R.L. Brown, Michel Rouche, Paul Veyne, Yvon Thébert

670 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily liv...

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