Description
'Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius,' the first to appear in The Meridian Library, is a dramatic reconstruction of the social, intellectual, artistic, and religious life of the Roman Empire from the terrorism of Nero and Caligula to the rule of the philosophers that was achieved under Marcus Aurelius. In describing the remarkable passage, under the Antonines, from terror rule to the rule of the wise, Dill exposes to world of the satirisit (Juvenal and Tactis); the rise of the freedoman as a popular movement; the Circle of the Younger Pliny; Seneca, as a philosophic missionary; the history of superstition in the Roman world; the idea of immortality; the doctrine of The Great Mother; Isis and Serapis; the religion of Mithra, and many other features of the Roman social order.
'Roman Society' is a panormaic work, lucid and brilliantly detailed with the innumerable elements that created one of the most noble and degraded civilizations of the West.