Project Gutenberg 2025-05-14 Public domain in the USA. 202 Davis, William Stearns 1877 1930 Davis, W. S. (William Stearns) 25019296 A day in old Rome : $b a picture of Roman life $aBoston :$bAllyn and Bacon, $c1925. A guided tour around Rome in 134 A. D., touching on all of the typical and common aspects of life. Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A day in old Rome : a picture of Roman life" by William Stearns Davis is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It offers a guided, daylong portrait of everyday life in Imperial Rome, centering on the city and its people during Hadrian’s era. Drawing on Latin authors and modern scholarship, it recreates streets, homes, customs, institutions, entertainments, and beliefs to show how Romans of many ranks actually lived. The opening of the book lays out the premise: a hypothetical visit to Rome in the second century, chosen for its prosperity under Hadrian and for the city’s near-complete architectural form. The preface explains the method, sources, and focus on urban life rather than the emperor, and the contents map a comprehensive tour. The first chapters sketch Rome’s setting and look—its geography, the Tiber, the Seven Hills, and the city’s materials and methods (tufa, travertine, marble, and especially concrete), as well as Roman adaptations of Greek forms with arches, vaults, and triumphal architecture. The narrative then drops into a typical street near the Esquiline to observe narrow lanes, stepping stones, shops, shrines, and fountains; the mixed crowds and constant Greek alongside Latin; the bustle, noise, and public processions; wall notices and graffiti; and the dangers and discomforts of night. Finally, it turns to housing: the prevalence of multi-story insulae versus the few domus mansions, building codes and risks, a sample tenement’s layout and rents, the plight of attic tenants and moving day, and the mitigations of urban poverty—ending just as the account prepares to contrast this with a senatorial home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/dayinoldrome0000will/page/n5/mode/2up 20230316034921davis 1925 US Reading ease score: 58.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Rome -- Social life and customs DG Text Category: History - European Category: History - Ancient 1146577 2025-07-30T06:39:04.327694 text/html 1088033 2025-05-14T10:48:12 text/html 10310094 2025-07-30T06:39:25.760086 application/epub+zip 10307366 2025-07-30T06:39:09.097608 application/epub+zip 628939 2025-07-30T06:39:06.689694 application/epub+zip 11362028 2025-07-30T06:39:36.430020 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 11306836 2025-07-30T06:39:23.179014 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 906420 2025-07-30T06:39:00.638733 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 886501 2025-05-14T10:48:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14079 2025-07-30T06:39:36.632958 application/rdf+xml 19915 2025-07-30T06:39:07.108625 image/jpeg 2502 2025-07-30T06:39:06.904589 image/jpeg 9432468 2025-07-30T06:39:04.774674 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia