The World of Ancient Rome: A Daily Life Encyclopedia

Authored by James W. Ermatinger (PhD in History, Indiana University Bloomington), Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History, University of Illinois-Springfield, this two-volume encyclopedia is available in both print and electronic formats as here reviewed. According to the author writing in the Introduction, the purpose of this publication is to “[…] explore the lives of average people of a particular time and place through the examination of social, cultural, and material history” (p. xxiii). The historical setting is defined in the Preface as “[…] primarily the Republican period, 509-31 BCE, with a few articles...