In this well-written and well-researched special history book, the author F.R. Cowell, succeeds in making Life in Ancient Rome alive and dynamic. The combination of historical fact and detail with the use of supplementary illustrations makes this an easy to read and useful book for students or just about anyone to explore and learn about the classics of Rome as well as the 20th century Rome. Overall, Life in Ancient Rome is a good book to get someone familiar with the once greatness of Rome.

Whether you are inquiring about with rise and the growth of the city or you want to know about the meals, food, and drink, this book outlines all the common facts of roman life and explains and illustrates it in great detail. I also think the author does a great job in showing the settings and the limits of the main q

In the middle of the book I lost interest when the author talked about treatment of slaves. I felt like the paragraphs were drawn out and the facts just were not as interesting as the rest of the book. I felt that his description of the way Roman slaves were treated was really no different than the way any other slaves would have been treated anywhere else. He makes it sound like Rome was the only place who had slaves and the way they treated their slaves was any different from the way other cultures of societies have treated their slaves. Then the author goes on about slave revolts, which I found no interest in. Naturally when there are slaves who are being treated inhumane by cruel, heartless people you are going to have some of the slaves fight back and stand up for themselves and what they believe in. Needless to say, this section of the book did not have my full attention.

Overall, I felt that the book Life in Ancient Rome by F.R. Cowell is a well-written and very easy to read book. This book actually seemed to make learning about Rome fun for me. The author used some great examples and had some wonderful illustrations. I found the illustrations to be very helpful in understanding what some of their things looked like.

The author, Cowell, gave a good detailed summ

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