The hidden life of ancient Rome. Slaves and gladiators, criminals and prostitutes, plebeians and legionnaires ... Residents of the eternal city,

Large American historian Robert NAPP, who for more than 30 years taught at the University of California at Berkeley the history and culture of ancient Rome, makes the heroes of his study of simple, “inconspicuous” residents of the Roman Empire: workers, housewives, poor, soldiers, gladiators, robbers, prostitutes, prostitutes, prostitutes, prostitutes Those about whose life much less is known, unlike emperors, philosophers, senators, that is, prominent representatives of the state. The author covers the period of Roman history from Emperor Octavian Augustus to Emperor Constantine the Great, creating a more clear and complete picture of the daily life of the lower ends, its negative sides