Memorable Deeds and Sayings —— One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome

----- 难忘的事迹与谚语：古罗马的千载传说

ISBN: 9780872206748 出版年：2004 页码：392 Valerius Maximus Henry John Walker Hackett Publishing

Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that cover nearly every aspect of life in the ancient world, including such wide-ranging topics as military discipline, child rearing, and women lawyers. As a whole, the work gives the reader fascinating insights into what it felt like to be an ancient Roman, what the ancient Romans really believed, what their private world was like, how they related to one another, and what they did when nobody was watching.