Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere #foliosociety First published in 1956

First published in 1956

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Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere #foliosociety First published in 1956A 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 Bdoyre takes the reader into a world of violent