A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 44
uries B.C., and in the Roman comedy derived from it. It wasa comedy of everyday life, in which the same well-known typeswere constantly reappearing. Such were the parasite (No. 57).who bears all the marks of a fondness for good living, and carriesa flask and a ham ; the glutton (Nos. 58 and 59),…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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