Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long distances and devised legal systems that were way ahead of their time. But ...

According to dictionary, these are the usual meanings today for the word “patrician” … unless we are talking about ancient Rome, in which ... the upper class constituted by the select patricians ...

Image courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The ancient Romans left behind ... Most Roman artisans resided in Rome’s working-class neighborhoods along the Tiber’s southern bank.