Everyday Life in the Ancient World

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Order of Contents

In General
Mesopotamia
Babylon & Assyria
Greece
Romans
Britain
Southern Europe
Middle East
India
China & Japan
Central America
South America
Africa


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In General

Book

1900’s

National Geographic – Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome  (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 1951)  370 pp.  ToC

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Mesopotamia

Short & Friendly

Mehta-Jones, Shilpa – Life in Ancient Mesopotamia  (Crabtree Publishing, 2005)  33 pp.  ToC

Hunter, Nick – Daily Life in Ancient Sumer  (Raintree, 2016)  46 pp.  ToC

Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

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Books

1900’s

National Geographic – Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome  (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 1951)  370 pp.  ToC

Gordon, Edmund – Sumerian Proverbs: Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia  in Museum Monographs  (The University Museum, 1959)  660 pp.

Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea – Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia  (Greenwood Press)

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Babylon & Assyria

Books

1900’s

Contenau, Georges – Everyday Life in Babylon & Assyria  (London: Edward Arnold, 1954)  380 pp.

Saggs, H.W.F. – Everyday Life in Babylon & Assyria  (Batsford, 1967)  205 pp.  ToC

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Babylon

Article

1900’s

Dandamaev, Aaboe & Reiner – ch. 28, ‘The Culture of Babylonia’  in Cambridge Ancient History  (NY: 1991), vol. 3, pp. 252-321

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Ancient Greeks

Homer, 750 BC to 650 BC

Books

1800’s

Mahaffy, J.P. – Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander [290 BC]  (London: Macmillan, 1888)  460 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell – Everyday Life in Homeric Greece  (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936)  210 pp.  ToC

Mireauz, Emile – Daily Life in the Time of Homer  (Macmillan, 1959)  260 pp.  ToC

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Short & Friendly

1900’s

Nichols, Roger & Sarah – Aspects of Greek Life: Greek Everyday Life  (Longman, 1978)  47 pp.  ToC

Miquel, Pierre – Life in Ancient Greece  in Silver Burdett Picture Histories  (Burdett, 1985)  65 pp.

Pearson, Anne – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  in Clues to the Past  (Watts, 1993)  37 pp.

Ross, Stewart – Ancient Greece: Daily Life  (Peter Bedrick Books, 1999)  50 pp.  ToC

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2000’s

Hull, Robet – Everyday Life: the World of Ancient Greece  (Watts, 2000)  33 pp.  ToC

Senker, Cath – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  in Uncovering History  (Smart Apple Media, 2004)  50 pp.  ToC

Peppas, Lynn – Life in Ancient Greece  (Crabtree Publishing, 2005)  34 pp.  ToC

Levine, Michelle – The Greeks: Life in Ancient Greece  (Lerner Press, 2010)  50 pp.  ToC

Bensinger, Henry – Ancient Greek Daily Life  (Rosen Publishing Group, 2014)  27 pp.

Nardo, Don – Daily Life in Ancient Greece  (Raintree, 2015)  50 pp.  ToC

Simons, Lisa M. Bolt – Daily Life in Ancient Greece  (Capstone Global Library, 2017)  23 pp.

Life in Ancient Greece  in Living History

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Books

1800’s

Mahaffy, J.P. – Social Life in Greece from Homer [750 to 650 BC] to Menander [290 BC]  (London: Macmillan, 1888)  460 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

McClees, Helen – The Daily Life of the Greeks & Romans, as Illustrated in the Classical Collections  (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925)  145 pp.  ToC

Robinson, C.E. – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  (Greenwood Press, 1933)  163 pp.  ToC

Flaceliere, Robert – Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles [c. 495 – 429 BC]  (Macmillan, 1965)  345 pp.  ToC

Guhl, E. & W. Koner – Everyday Life of the Greeks & Romans  (London: Studio Editions, 1989)  625 pp.  ToC

Garland, Robert – Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks  (Greenwood Press, 1998)  260 pp.  ToC

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2000’s

Matz, David – Voices of Ancient Greece & Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life  (Greenwood, 2012)  300 pp.  ToC

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Special Topics

Mythology

Short & Friendly

2000’s

MacDonald, Fiona – Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks  (Peter Bedrick Books, 2002)  40 pp.  ToC

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Families

Short & Friendly

Millard, Anne – Family Life in Ancient Greece  (Wayland, 1995)  34 pp.  ToC

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Cooking

Short & Friendly

Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Greece  (Wayland, 2009)  35 pp.  ToC

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Sex

Licht, Hans – Sexual Life in Ancient Greece  tr. J.H. Freese  (London: Routledge & Sons, 1935)  630 pp.  ToC

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City of Athens

Friendly

Kotapish, Dawn – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Athens  (Runestone Press, 2001)  65 pp.  ToC

Shuter, Jane – Life in Ancient Athens  in Picture the Past  (2006)  33 pp.  ToC

Nardo, Don – Life in Ancient Athens  (Lucent Books, 2000)  110 pp.  ToC

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Books

Tucker, Thomas G. – Life in Ancient Athens  (Macmillan, 1906)  340 pp.  ToC

Gardner, Ernest A. – Ancient Athens  (Macmillan, 1907)  635 pp.  ToC

Webster, T.B.L. – Everyday Life in Classical Athens [500 BC – 323 BC]  (Batsford, 1969)  190 pp.  ToC

Deighton, Hilary – A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens  (Bristol Classical Press, 1995)  85 pp.

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Source Anthology

eds. Ferguson & Chisholm – Political & Social Life in the Great Age of Athens [478 BC to 336 BC]: a Source Book  (Ward Lock Educational, 1978)  275 pp.  ToC

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Crete

Willetts, R.F. – Everyday Life in Ancient Crete  (Batsford, 1969)  190 pp.  ToC

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Hellenistic World

Evans, James Allan – Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age from Alexander to Cleopatra  (Greenwood Press, 2008)  250 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Romans

Encyclopedia

2000’s

Ermatinger, James W. – The World of Ancient Rome: a Daily Life Encyclopedia, vol. 1, 2  (Greenwood, 2015)

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Short & Friendly

1900’s

Miquel, Pierre – Life in Ancient Rome  in Silver Burdett Picture Histories  (Burdett, 1984)  60 pp.

Kaufman, William – Life in Ancient Rome  (Dover, 1997)  45 pp.

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2000’s

Grant, Neil – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  in Uncovering History  (Smart Apple Media, 2003)  44 pp.  ToC

Adams, Simon – Life in Ancient Rome  (Kingfisher, 2005)  62 pp.  ToC

Mehta-Jones, Shilpa – Life in Ancient Rome  (Crabtree, 2005)  35 pp.

Williams, Brenda – Staying Alive in Ancient Rome  (Raintree, 2008)  34 pp.

Life during the Roman Empire

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Books

1900’s

McClees, Helen – The Daily Life of the Greeks & Romans, as Illustrated in the Classical Collections  (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925)  145 pp.  ToC

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Times  (Transworld Publishers, 1972)  125 pp.

Balsdon & Ferguson – Social Life in the Early Empire  (Open University, 1974)  65 pp.  ToC

Casson, Lionel – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Rome [in the 2nd Century AD]  (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975)  125 pp.  ToC

Liversidge, Joan – Everyday Life in the Roman Empire  (Batsford, 1976)  235 pp.  ToC

Fleming, Stuart J. – Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life  (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997)  75 pp.  ToC

This book draws observations on everyday life from a study of Roman pottery, statues, etc.

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2000’s

McGowen, Stacey – Roman Daily Life  (University Readers, 2012)  150 pp.  ToC

Matz, David

Daily Life of the Ancient Romans  (Greenwood Press)

Voices of Ancient Greece & Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life  (Greenwood, 2012)  300 pp.  ToC

Chrystal, Paul – How to be a Roman: a Day in the Life of a Roman Family  (Stroud: Amberlsy, 2017)  94 pp.  ToC

Chrystal, Paul – When in Rome: Social Life in Ancient Rome [753 BC to 550 AD]  (Fonthill, 2017)  300 pp.  ToC

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Historical Fiction

Army

Whitehead, A.C. – The Standard Bearer: a Story of Army Life in the Time of Caesar [100 BC to 44 BC]  (Biblo & Tannen, 1967)  300 pp.  ToC

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City of Rome

Short & Friendly

Millard, Anne – Ancient Rome: Everyday Life in Roman Times  (1981)  63 pp.  ToC

Nardo, Don – Daily Life in Ancient Rome  (Raintree, 2015)  48 pp.  ToC

Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome  (Runestone Press, 1999)  60 pp.

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Books

Treble, H.A. & K.M. King – Everyday Life in Rome in the Time of Caesar & Cicero  (Clarendon Press, 1939)  160 pp.  ToC

Carcopino, Jerome – Daily Life in Ancient Rome: the People & the City at the Height of the Empire  (Yale Univ. Press, 1940)  355 pp.  ToC

Cowell, F.R. – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  (London: Batsford, 1961)  220 pp.  ToC

Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998)  180 pp.  ToC

Dupont, Florence – Daily Life in Ancient Rome  (Blackwell, 1993)  315 pp.  ToC

Aldrete, Gregory S. – The Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia  (Greenwood Press)

Angela, Alberto – A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome  tr. Gregory Conti  (Europa, 2009)  380 pp.  ToC

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City of Pompeii

Books

De Albentiis, Emidio – Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009)  195 pp.

Tuck, Steven – Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City: Course Guidbook  in The Great Courses  (The Teaching Company, 2010)  110 pp.

Aldrete, Gregory S. – The Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia  (Greenwood Press)an

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Etruscans

Heurgon, Jacques – Daily Life of the Etruscans  (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961)  340 pp.  ToC

MacNamara, Ellen – Everyday Life of the Etruscans  (Batsford, 1973)  220 pp.  ToC

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Roman Frontier

Book

Southern, Patricia – Hadrian’s Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Fontier  (Amberley: 2016)  460 pp.  ToC

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Britain

Historical Fiction

Allason-Jones Lindsay – Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain [AD 122-138]  (Michael O’Mara Books, 2000)  235 pp.  ToC

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Families

Chrisp, Peter – Family Life in Roman Britain  (Wayland, 1994)  34 pp.  ToC

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Special Topics

Religion

Turcan, Robert – The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times  tr. Antonia Nevill  (Routledge, 2000)  200 pp.  ToC

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Women

Allason-Jones Lindsay – Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain [AD 122-138]  (Michael O’Mara Books, 2000)  235 pp.  ToC

This is historical fiction.

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Cooking

Short & Friendly

Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Rome  (Power Kids Press, 2010)  35 pp.  ToC

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Military

Short & Friendly

Wood, Richard – The Daily Life of a Roman Centurion  (Wayland, 2008)  30 pp.

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Sex

Keifer, Otto – Sexual Life in Ancient Rome  (Dorset Press, 1993)  395 pp.  ToC

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Charioteer

Anderson, Scoular – A Day in the Life of a Roman Charioteer  (Pearson Education, 2001)  24 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Britain

Books

1800’s

Windle, Bertram – Life in Early Britain, being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this Island & the Memorials which they have left behind them  (London: David Nutt, 1897)  255 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England  (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922)  445 pp.  ToC

Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries  (Blackie & Son, 1927)  250 pp.  ToC

ed. Barraclough, Geoffrey – Social Life in Early England  (Barnes & Noble, 1960)  280 pp.  ToC

Barrett, John – Fragments from Antiquity: an Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC  (Blackwell, 1994)  190 pp.  ToC

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Celts

Short & Friendly

1900’s

Walkley, Victor – Celtic Daily Life  (London: Robinson, 1997)  120 pp.  ToC

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2000’s

Grant, Neil – Everyday Life of the Celts  in Uncovering History  (Smart Apple Media, 2004)  45 pp.

Butterfield, Moira – Discover the Celts & the Iron Age: Everyday Life  (Watts, 2016)  35 pp.  ToC

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Books

1900’s

Ross, Anne – Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts  (Batsford, 1970)  220 pp.

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2000’s

Alcock, Joan P. – Daily Life of the Pagan Celts  (Greenwood Publishing, 2009)  240 pp.

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Roman Britain

Books

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Britain  3rd ed.  (London: Batsford, 1924)  150 pp.  ToC

ed. Barraclough, Geoggrey – Social Life in Early England  (Greenwood Press, 1980)  275 pp.  ToC

Allason-Jones, Lindsay – Daily Life in Roman Britain  (Greenwood, 2008)  195 pp.  ToC

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Scotland

1800’s

Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3  (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884)  420 pp.  ToC 1, 2, 3

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Ancient Southern Europe

Italy

Book

1900’s

Friedlander, Ludwig – Town Life in Ancient Italy  tr. William Waters  (Sanborn, 1908)  70 pp.  no ToC

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Ancient Middle East & North Africa

Middle East

Book

eds. Averbeck, Chavalas & Weisberg – Life & Culture in the Ancient Near East  (CDL Press, 2003)  515 pp.  ToC

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Turkey

City of Istanbul

Whole of History

Bator, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Istanbul  (Runestone Press, 2000)  65 pp.  ToC

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1900 to 1950

Johnson, Clarence – Constantinople To-day; or the Pathfinder Survey of Constantinople; a Study in Oriental Social Life  (Macmillan, 1922)  475 pp.  ToC

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City of Troy

The Trojan Woman  tr. Gilbert Murray  (Allen & Unwin, 1925)

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Ugarit

van Selms, A. – Marriage & Family Life in Ugaritic Literature  (Luzac & Co., 1954)  160 pp.  ToC

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Israel

See ‘Everyday Life in Bible Times & Lands’.

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Iran

Whole History

Article

Adams, Robert – “Agriculture & Urban Life in Early Southwestern Iran”  in Science, vol. 136, no. 3511  (1962), pp. 109-36

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Egypt

Friendly

Harris, Nathaniel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (Sea-to-Sea, 2006)  35 pp.  ToC

Rockwood, Leigh – Ancient Egyptian Daily Life  in Spotlight on Ancient Civilizations: Egypt  (2014)  28 pp.

Nardo, Don

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt  (2015)  48 pp.  ToC

People of the Nile: Rhythms of Daily Life  (Thomson/Gale, 2005)  110 pp.  ToC

Doxey, Denise – Life in Ancient Egypt: a Journey into the Mysterious Past  (Running Press, 1996)  62 pp.  ToC

Challen, Paul – Life in Ancient Egypt  (Crabtree Publishing, 2004)  35 pp.  ToC

Streissguth, Thomas – Life in Ancient Egypt  (Lucent Books, 2001)  98 pp.

Life in Ancient Egypt  in Living History

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Article

A.M.L. – “An Exhibit Illustrating the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians”  in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 13  (1918), pp. 283-88

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Books

Budge, E.A. Wallis – A Short History of the Egyptian People, with chapters on their Reglion, Daily Life, etc.  (Dent & Sons, 1914)  300 pp.  ToC

Petrie, W.M. Flinders – Social Life in Ancient Egypt  (Constable & Co., 1923)  220 pp.  ToC

Shorter, Alan W. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1932)  240 pp.  ToC

Wilson, John – The Culture of Ancient Egypt  (Phoenix Books / Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951)  375 pp.  ToC

Winlock, H.E. – Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Meket-Re at Thebes  (Harvard Univ. Press, 1955)  205 pp.  ToC

Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt in the days of Ramesses the Great  tr. Maxwell-Hyslop & Drower  (St. Martin’s Press, 1958)  410 pp.  ToC

Lindsay, Jack – Daily Life in Roman Egypt [30 BC to AD 640]  (London: Frederick Muller, 1963)  410 pp.  ToC

Sameh, Waley-el-dine – Daily Life in Ancient Egypt  (McGraw-Hill, 1964)  160 pp.  ToC

Mertz, Barbara – Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Egypt  rev. ed.  (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978)  400 pp.  ToC

Romer, John – Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs  (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984)  280 pp.  ToC

Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great [1279-1213 BC]  (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1981)  410 pp.

White, Jon M. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (Dorset Press, 1989)  208 pp.  ToC

Romano, James F. – Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians  (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1990)  55 pp.  ToC

Brier, Bob & Hoyt Hobbs – Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians  (Greenwood Press, 1999)  265 pp.  ToC

Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  rev. ed.  (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001)  175 pp.

Booth, Charlotte – Lost Voices of the Nile: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (Amberley, 2015)  300 pp.

Egyptian Museum of Turin – Egyption Civilization: Daily Life  (Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, 1988)  260 pp.

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Pharaohs

Short & Friendly

Helbrough, Emma – A Day in the Life of a Pharaoh [Ramesses, c. 1270 BC]  (Power Kids Press, 2008)  36 pp.  ToC

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Families

Short & Friendly

Clayton, Peter – Family Life in Ancient Egypt  (Wayland, 1995)  40 pp.  ToC

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Nubians

3,500 BC to 300 BC

Bianchi, Robert S. – Daily Life of the Nubians  (Greenwood Press)

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Mythology

Short & Friendly

McCall, Henrietta – Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians  (Peter Bedrick Books, 2001)  44 pp.  ToC

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Book

Meeks, Dimitri & Christine Favard-Meeks – Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods  (Cornell Univ. Press, 1996)  275 pp.  ToC

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Cooking

Short & Friendly

Gifford, Clive – Food & Cooking in Ancient Egypt  (Power Kids Press, 2010)  32 pp.  ToC

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City of Antioch

Haddad, George – Aspects of Social Life in Antioch in the Hellenistic-Roman Period  (Univ. of Chicago, 1949)  185 pp.  ToC

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North Africa

Carthage

Charles-Picard, Gilbert & Colette – Daily Life in Carthage at the Time of Hannibal [247-183 BC]  tr. A. Foster  (Macmillan, 1961)  265 pp.  ToC

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Ancient India

Indus Valley

Short & Friendly

Williams, Brian – Daily Life in the Indus Valley Civilization  (Raintree, 2016)  47 pp.  ToC

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Books

Speir, Charlotte – Life in Ancient India  (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856)  515 pp.  ToC

Jain, Jagdish Chandra – Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons  (New Book Co., 1947)  415 pp.  ToC

Sengupta, Padmini – Everyday Life in Ancient India  (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950)  210 pp.  ToC

Auboyer, Jeannine – Daily Life in Ancient India from approximately 200 BC to AD 700  (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961)  385 pp.  ToC

Edwardes, Michael – Everyday Life in Early India  (Batsford, 1969)  185 pp.  ToC

Murthy, K. Krishna – Social & Cultural Life in Ancient India  (Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1982)  175 pp.  ToC

ed. Sircar, D.C. – Social Life in Ancient India  (Univ. of Calcutta, 1971)  160 pp.  ToC

Chakladar, Haran Chandra – Social Life in Ancient India: Study in Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra  (Cosmo Publications, 1929)  215 pp.  no ToC

Narayan – Some Aspects of Social Life in Ancient India  (Allhabad Narayan Publishing House, 1976)  345 pp.  ToC

Singh, Madan Mohan – Life in North-Eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times (with special reference to c. 600 B.C. – 325 B.C.)  (Motilal Banarsidass, 1967)  330 pp.  ToC

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Sex

Meyer, Johann J. – Sexual Life in Ancient india: a Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture, vol. 1, 2  (Dutton & Co., 1930)  280 pp.  ToC 1, 2

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Ancient China & Japan

China

Whole History

ed. Kerr, Rose – Chinese Art & Design: Art Objects in Ritual & Daily Life  (Overlook Press, 1991)  250 pp.  ToC

ed. Kuiper, Kathleen – The Culture of China  in Understanding China  (Rosen, 2010)  300 pp.  ToC

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1766 BC to 1046 BC

Hile, Lori – Daily Life in the Shang Dynasty China  (Raintree, 2016)  45 pp.  ToC

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200 BC to AD 220

Loewe, Michael – Everyday Life in Early Imperial China during the Han Period, 202 BC – AD 220  (Dorset Press, 1988)  200 pp.  ToC

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600 to 1400

Contracts

Hansen, Valerie – Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People used Contracts 600-1400  (Yale Univ. Press, 1995)  300 pp.

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618 to 907

Benn, Charles – China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty [AD 618-907]  (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)  335 pp.  ToC

Benn, Charles – Daily Life in Traditional China: the Tang Dynasty  (Greenwood Press, 2002)  340 pp.  ToC

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1200’s

Gernet, Jacques – Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276  (Macmillan, 1962)  265 pp.  ToC

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City of Beijing

Baldwin, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Beijing  (Runestone Press, 1999)  65 pp.  ToC

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Sex

van Gulik, R.H. – Sexual Life in Ancient China  (Brill, 1961)  435 pp.  ToC

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Japan

Books

Farris, William W. – Daily Life & Demographics in Ancient Japan  (Univ. of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2020)  140 pp.  ToC

Deal, William E. – Handbook to Life in Medieval & Early Modern Japan  (Facts on File, 2006)  425 pp.

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Samurai

Fredeic, Louis – Daily Life in Japan at the Time of the Samurai, 1185-1603  (Praeger, 1972)  265 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Central America

Sex & Drugs

Book

Guerra, Francisco – The Pre-Columbian Mind: a Study into the Aberrant Nature of Sexual Drives, Drugs affecting Behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America  (Seminar Press, 1971)  370 pp.  ToC

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Mexico

Burland, C.A. – Art & Life in Ancient Mexico  (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1948)  105 pp.

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Aztecs

Short & Friendly

Niver, Heather – Ancient Aztec Daily Life  (Power Kids Press, 2017)  33 pp.

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Books

Thompson, J. Eric – Mexico Before Cortez: an Account of the Daily Life, Religion & Ritual of the Aztecs & Kindred Peoples  (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937)  345 pp.  ToC

Bray, Warwick – Everyday Life of the Aztecs  (Batsford, 1968)  205 pp.

Soustelle, Jacques – Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest  (Macmillan, 1968)  360 pp.  ToC

Carrasco, David & Scott Sessions – Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun & Earth  2nd ed.  (Greenwood Press, 1998; 2011)  300 pp.

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Mayans

Short & Friendly

Hunter, Nick – Daily Life in the Maya Civilization  (Raintree, 2016)  48 pp.

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Books

Whitlock, Ralph – Everyday Life of the Maya  (Dorset Press, 1987)  190 pp.  ToC

Sharer, Robert – Daily Life in Maya Civilization  (Greenwood Press, 1996)  250 pp.

Foster, Lynn – Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World  (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005)  415 pp.  ToC

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Mexico City

Cory, Steve – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Mexico City  (Runestone Press, 1999)  65 pp.  ToC

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Ancient South America

Short & Friendly

Richardson, Hazel – Life in Ancient South America  (Crabtree, 2005)  38 pp.

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Sex & Drugs

Book

Guerra, Francisco – The Pre-Columbian Mind: a Study into the Aberrant Nature of Sexual Drives, Drugs affecting Behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America  (Seminar Press, 1971)  370 pp.  ToC

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Peru

Wood, Alix – Uncovering the Culture of Ancient Peru  (2015)  34 pp.

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Incas

Books

Kendall, Ann – Everyday Life of the Incas  (Batsford, 1973)  210 pp.  ToC

Malpass, Michael – Daily Life in the Inca Empire  (Hackett Publishing Co., 2008)  190 pp.  ToC

Baudin, Louis – Daily Life in Peru under the Last Incas [1500-1572]  (Macmillan, 1962)  250 pp.  ToC  This was republished as: Daily Life of the Incas  (Dover, 2003)

Rome, Jesus & Lucienne – Life of the Incas in Ancient Peru  (1987)  142 pp.

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Ancient Africa

Short & Friendly

Richardson, Hazel – Life in Ancient Africa  (Crabtree, 2005)  32 pp.

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West Africa

Short & Friendly

Mason, Paul – Daily Life in Ancient Benin  (Raintree, 2016)  50 pp.  ToC

Brook, Larry – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Timbuktu  (Runestone Press, 1999)  65 pp.  ToC

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Ghana

Whole History

Bibliography

Amedekey, E.Y. – The Culture of Ghana: a Bibliography  (Ghana Univ. Press, 1970)  225 pp.  ToC

 

 

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