02443cam a2200301 4500 2614881292 TxAuBib 20251106120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798318516030 de0e8c2f-9781-4286-8a28-9f55d002157e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12121428 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bowes, Kim. Surviving Rome [Libby Audiobook] : The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent. Tantor Media, Inc, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 372MB. economic history. Ancient History. Labor. HTML:The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor. Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children's toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income. And she suggests that Romans' most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status. Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today's laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.. Nonfiction. Business. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-11-06 20:00:03. Schnaubelt, Teri. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=de0e8c2f-9781-4286-8a28-9f55d002157e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)