A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world. Life in ancient Rome was exceptionally and vividly captured by the historians, philosophers, and poets of Rome, who were acutely aware of the vibrant and luxurious nature of a city that dominated the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and many others, including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bedoyere transports us to a world of violent politics, political turmoil, forbidden entertainment, luxury, decadence, eroticism, exotic elements, and stunning inequality, experienced daily by Romans, from the super-rich elite to the humblest slaves. The Populus places the people who personally experienced Rome at the forefront of their narrative, from the demagogic senator Clodius Pulcher to Pliny the Elder and Hortensia, who defended women's rights in court, to the former slave and famous baker Eurysaces.
