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What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire to light. He seeks out the ordinary folkâlaboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiatorsâwho formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the histories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, magical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and even the New Testament. Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far removed from our own, but one that resonates through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed and ignored them.
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9780674061996 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 24, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators.
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9780674284227 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2014), cover price $21.00
Product Description: Mid-Michigan was an untamable wilderness, good only for trappers and Native Americans until Americas population exploded and the demand for timber suddenly changed everything. By the 1860s, Clare was at the center of this lumbermans paradise...read more
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9780738591728 | Arcadia Pub, August 20, 2012, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Mid-Michigan was an untamable wilderness, good only for trappers and Native Americans until Americas population exploded and the demand for timber suddenly changed everything.
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9781585100804 | 2 wkb blg edition (Focus Pub R Pullins & Co, June 6, 2003), cover price $17.95
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9781585100828 | 2 ans blg edition (Focus Pub R Pullins & Co, June 6, 2003), cover price $9.95
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9780941051750 | Focus Pub R Pullins & Co, January 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Workbook to accompany Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic.
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9780912736174 | 2 edition (Edits Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $29.75
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