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Journey to the heart of a great civilization in this world-spanning tour of the ancient cities of the Roman Empire.
How did the Romans manage to preserve their culture while expanding so quickly? The answer lies, in part, in the cities they left behind. Leading historians reveal how the Roman practice of immediately building a city in any territory they conquered helped to control the sprawling empire for almost a thousand years.
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"The study of the city in Roman and Byzantine Egypt is illuminated by a large number of surviving texts. These allow us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of for other provinces of the Empire. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to understand what the transformations of the city meant for ordinary people, and to...
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Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was -- more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? -- and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. --from publisher description.
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