The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life And Aesthetics In The Roman Empire, 100 Bce250 Ce
by Emanuel Mayer /
2012 / English / PDF
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Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of upper-class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we haveart, architecture, household artifactsbelonged to artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes is distinctly middle-class and requires a radically new framework of analysis.
