Meaning of Ancient Rome | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The civilization associated with Rome from the 9th century BCE to the 5th century CE and the Roman Empire centered on it.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Ancient Rome.
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Examples

“Houses in ancient Rome developed vertically rather than horizontally because of problems of overpopulation.”

“Ralph Aiken claimed that the dangerous “excess of leisure” that the masses now had could lead to united mobs upsetting “the constitutional order of things,” resulting in “turbulence in idleness without government assistance” and a chaotic society comparable to ancient Rome: “Like the ancient Romans, the modern idle will be doing what they should not do if they follow their natural tendencies.[…]””

“Writing a chapter on ‘women’s daily life in ancient Rome’ is a challenge, since it involves three questionable categories: ‘women’, ‘daily life’ and ‘ancient Rome’. […] Lastly, the term ‘ancient Rome’ can be used for the city of Rome in antiquity and for the Roman world at large.”

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