Brad’s Reviews > Age of the Gladiators: Savagery & Spectacle in Ancient Rome > Status Update

From a recent haul from a church book sale. Had me revisiting notes from Anthony Everitt's "The Rise of Rome", i.e.:

“Rome’s frequent festivities certainly mitigated the pain of life, but to the slave and the jobless citizen or part-timer the city was a cramped, crowded, smelly, unhealthy habitat. The rich and powerful enjoyed a high level of comfort and ease, but wisely kept a weather eye on the discontents.”