| Summary: | The Romans, or at least a certain class of Romans, took luxurious living to new extremes, helped no doubt by the many thousands of slaves whose sole purpose was to ease the lives of their masters. This well-illustrated study uses artistic, literary and archaeological evidence to explore examples of Roman decadence, in the home, in the bathhouse, in the bedroom and at the dining table. Snobbery was also rife and was targeted in particular at country dwellers. Many of the images are familiar, notably Pompeian wall-paintings, but these are supplemented by photographs of sites, pieces of jewellery, figurines and grave monuments. The narrative is well-presented and punctuated by extracts from contemporary texts. German text.
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