Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.
- New York : Meridian Books, (c)1956.
- xxii, 639 pages ; 21 cm.
Book I -- The aristocracy under the terror -- The world of the satirist -- The society of the freedmen -- Book II -- The circle of the younger Pliny -- Municipal life -- The colleges and plebeian life -- Book III -- The philosophic director -- The philosophic missionary -- The philosophic theologian -- Book IV -- Superstition -- Belief in immortality -- The old Roman religion -- Magna mater -- Isis and Serapis -- The religion of Mithra.