ancient Rome

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Proper noun

ancient Rome

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ancient Rome.
    • 2002, Ivana Della Portella, translated by Richard Pierce, Subterranean Rome, Arsenale, →ISBN, page 149:
      Houses in ancient Rome developed vertically rather than horizontally because of problems of overpopulation.
    • 2005, Susan Currell, The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 162:
      Ralph Aiken claimed that the dangerous “excess of leisure” that the masses now had could lead to united mobs upsetting “the constitutional order of things,” resulting in “turbulence in idleness without government assistance” and a chaotic society comparable to ancient Rome: “Like the ancient Romans, the modern idle will be doing what they should not do if they follow their natural tendencies. []
    • 2016, Emily Hemelrijk, “Women’s daily life in the Roman west”, in Stephanie Lynn Budin, Jean MacIntosh Turfa, editors, Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Writing a chapter on ‘women’s daily life in ancient Rome’ is a challenge, since it involves three questionable categories: ‘women’, ‘daily life’ and ‘ancient Rome’. [] Lastly, the term ‘ancient Rome’ can be used for the city of Rome in antiquity and for the Roman world at large.

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