THE ANCIENT WORLD

Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the scholar behind Marcus Sidonius Falx’s How to Manage your Slaves (Profile 2014) and Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Polity Press 2009).

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Popular Culture in Ancient Rome

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How to Manage your Slaves, by Marcus Sidonius Falx

The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino:
Understanding the Roman Games

THE

ANCIENT
WORLD

JERRY TONER

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CONTENTS

1  ANOTHER ANCIENT WORLD

2  THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM BELOW

3  WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE IS THE ANCIENT WORLD?

4  HOW DO WE DISCOVER IT?

5  DID GREECE AND ROME MATTER?

6  THROUGH CLASSICAL EYES

Illustrations

Further investigations

Index