Lindsay Powell, who recommends Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson which I listed yesterday, also likes Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome by J.P.V.D. Balsdon, London: The
Bodley Head, 1969, which can be had very cheaply on the used book market in the paperback edition of 2004 by Phoenix Press.
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