‘Atimetus got me pregnant’
Emma Dench: Roman Popular Culture, 17 February 2011
Popular Culture in Ancient Rome
by Jerry Toner.
Polity, 253 pp., £17.99, July 2009,978 0 7456 4310 6 Show More
by Jerry Toner.
Polity, 253 pp., £17.99, July 2009,
“... tunic, but on a napkin around his neck. He wears what looks from a distance to be a solid gold ring, the marker of a Roman knight, but turns out to be gilt, inlaid with little iron stars. Just like the members of the imperial family, or any self-respecting senator, he is a phenomenal self-publicist, but the kinds of achievement that are inscribed and ... ”