An important addition to the study of modern culture from the perspective of the past.
All those interested in a longue durée perspective on “retail therapy” can now get an idea on what happened in the Roman period:
C. Holleran, Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Always something new to learn…
:-)
Aren
