ANCIENT HISTORY MAGAZINE # 45: Luxury and Conspicuous Consumption

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Theme: Luxury and Conspicuous Consumption
* A Lady That Was Both Loved and Feared - The Woman of Vix
* Power and Wealth in the Mycenaean World - Cyclopean Fortifications
* Luxury, Competition, and Austerity - Sybaritic Elites
* Showing Status in the Roman Home - Decorating the Roman Indoors
* Funerary Practices in Ancient Rome - The Price of Remembrance

Features:
* Texts from the Villa of the Papyri - A Tantalizing Promise
* Literacy and Occupations in Ancient Egypt - To Scribe or Not to Scribe
* Culinary Creativity in the Ancient World - Roman Veggies
* Was This Famous Philosopher Also a Slave? - Plato Goes to Syracuse
* Land of Rivers and Horses - The Many Names of Mittani
* Roman Military Logistics in Spain - To Starve or Be Beaten
* The Public and Private Bonds Between Families - Roman Marriage