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Article: Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. By Gregory S. Aldrete. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 280. $49.95.)
Based on the observation that the Roman Empire is better understood as a web of urban nuclei than a continuous territorial landmass, the author uses cities as gateways for the exploration of ancient daily city life in this introductory history textbook. Gregory S. Aldrete covers a wide variety of urban aspects but focuses primarily on Rome itself, which he interprets as a model that was imitated throughout the Roman world. On this understanding, the same urban amenities and a standard set of Roman buildings were found in ...