Everyday Life in Ancient Rome"This book presents a series of concise sketches of key phases of life in the Roman world during its greatest period, the peaceful and prosperous years of the first and second centuries A. D.: what life was like in the city, in the countryside, on the road; what it was like in the various levels of society The sketches are fashioned to reveal how the inevitable cycle from birth to death that we all share played out in the circumstances of this very