Los olvidados de Roma

When we think of ancient Rome, senators, emperors, power struggles, luxury, baths, religion, architecture or codes of laws come to mind. But what was Roman society really like? How did common people live? In The Forgotten of Rome, Robert Knapp shows how ordinary people sought to make a living and prosper in times that were not always easy in which disease, hunger and violence were the order of the day, subject to powers that, at times, She was often oppressed or ignored. We will see what the ties were between the various social groups and we will understand how slaves became outlaws or why the children of freedmen ended up being part of the army. Ultimately, we will follow the lives of the forgotten citizens of Rome. We will listen to their testimonies in literature, letters or inscriptions, and we will look for their traces in the stories, treatises, plays or poetry created by the elite. This is, in short, the portrait of the forgotten people of Rome, who are essential to understand its history.