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Using contemporary accounts from all levels of society, from the chattering classes to humble foot-soldiers, from senators to slaves, The Roman Way explores different aspects of everyday life, two millennia ago.
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Life at the edge
For the Britons living in the area known today as Northumberland, the city of Rome was unimaginably distant.
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Our knowledge of the minutiae of everyday lives in the region has increased enormously in the past 30 years. Discoveries were made during archæological excavations at Vindolanda, slightly south of Hadrian's Wall.
By chance, preservation conditions on-site are extremely good and a wealth of material has come to light which provides archæologists and historians with unparalleled information on troop-movements and activities, requisition of building materials, arrival of food supplies, dealings with the indigenous people, the families of the military personnel, parties and social gatherings, even the soldiers' love of Celtic beer.
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Further reading
Peter Jones
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Classics
Duckworth
P Jones & K Sidwell
The World of Rome
Cambridge 1997
Jerome Carcopino
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Penguin
Fergus Millar
The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours
Duckworth
Anthony Birley
Garrison Life at Vindolanda - A Band of Brothers
Tempus
Pliny (tr) Betty Radice
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Penguin Classics
Marcus Aurelius (tr) Maxwell Staniforth
Meditations
Penguin Classics
Seneca (tr) Robin Campbell
Letters from a Stoic
Penguin Classics
Tim Cornell & John Matthews
Atlas of the Roman World
New York: Facts on File c1982
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