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The Fire Before Us: ROME: The Market, the Counter, and the Life of the Ordinary City (Book Four of The Fire Before Us Series)
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ISBN13: 9798193649854
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Somewhere behind every table this series has explored, a market stall was open before dawn, a bakery's ovens were already burning, and a vendor was calling out something warm to a crowd that hadn't eaten breakfast yet. This final book turns toward that beginning, the ordinary commercial life that fed an entire city long before any of that food reached a soldier's ration, a senator's table, or a household altar.
The Fire Before Us: Rome, Book Four follows the counters, kitchens, and trades that made Rome's daily eating actually possible. A thermopolium ladling stew from sunken jars to customers with nowhere to cook their own dinner. A public bakery, its stone mills turning imported grain into bread for a city too large to feed itself any other way, and the remarkable state apparatus of the grain dole standing behind it. A macellum where an ordinary household did its ordinary shopping among fishmongers and cheese sellers and produce carts. A wine seller's counter, drawing laborers and gamblers and, on occasion, wealthier young men chasing an evening a formal dinner party never offered. A street vendor moving straight into a crowd gathered for the games, selling what a fixed shop never could reach. And the guilds binding it all together, apprenticeships and hereditary trades and the professional lives of the people who spent entire careers making sure a city of a million people never went hungry.
Grounded substantially in the excavated remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum, this book closes the series where its subject actually began, in the ordinary, unglamorous commerce behind every meal this entire series has explored.
Grounded substantially in the excavated remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum, this book closes the series where its subject actually began, in the ordinary, unglamorous commerce behind every meal this entire series has explored.
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