Invisible Romans Quotes

“The visible that emerged was a tapestry of people working to make their lives as good as possible, struggling with all the emotional concurrents and enjoying all the satisfactions that came with it”
― Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans

“The traditional elite view was that Roman marriage was a cold relationship arranged by adults for their children, its purpose and heart being procreation and the protection of family resources and influence, within this the wife 'lay back and thought of Rome', while the man exercised his sexual virility not just on her, but also on concubines, whores and slave girls”
― Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans