title: Life in Ancient Rome: Absorbing Social History--A Vivid Portrait of a Magnificent Age (Perigee)
author:  F. R. Cowell 
description: In this well-written and well-researched social history F.R. Cowell succeeds in making Life in Ancient Rome alive and dynamic. The combination of acute historical detail and supplementary illustrations makes this book perfectly suited for the student preparing to explore the classics, as well as the tourist preparing to explore twentieth-century Rome. Lucid and engaging, Life In Ancient Rome is for anyone seeking familiarity with the greatness that was Rome.
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  Omaha, the Prairie City  
    
  
  
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  # Omaha, the Prairie City
  
  
  ### William R. Lighton
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Rare are the buttons on a Roman's breeches,
  
  
  In antiquarian eyes surpassing riches:
  
  
  Rare is each crack'd, black, rotten earthen dish,
  
  
  That held of ancient Rome the flesh and fish."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THUS wrote Peter Pindar; and Dr. Holmes, in kindred mood, said that "fifty
  years make everything hopelessly
  
  
  old-fashioned, without giving it the charm of real antiquity. There are too
  many talkative old people who remember
  
  
  all about that time; and at best half a century is a half-baked bit of ware."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was a little chilling to have memory thrust forward those sayings at the
  moment of starting to write about
  
  
  Omaha, which is a half-century town. But memory furnished also a remedy for
  the chill,