The Ancient Middle Classes Volume 2970 (
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Mayer, Ernst Emanuel
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Article
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2012
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Harvard University Press
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English
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Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of upper-class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we haveβart, architecture, household artifactsβbelonged to artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes is distinctly middle-class and