Sesenta millones de romanos

The stories of Rome usually tell us only about the ruling elites and their culture. This book, on the contrary, refers to the Roman people: to the mass of 50 to 60 million artisans, workers, peasants, beggars or slaves who made up 99 percent of society and who shared a culture integrated by their strategies of life and for its forms of entertainment, sometimes clearly subversive. Jerry Toner introduces us to this "upside down world" and guides us through fascinating, and hitherto poorly studied, terrain such as mental health in stressful times or sensory history, in an attempt to reconstruct a world of senses, smells and sensations that separated the people from the elite, and that is also very different from ours.