It is very difficult to present in a description the whole life of a people, and more so if it happened many centuries ago. But it is given to us to imagine it, if we find a variety of documents that remind us, in addition to the main heroic deeds, the acts and scenes of your daily life. These data show us the character of that town, the circumstances and aspirations in which its people lived, customs and the nature of life in which they were: their culture and idiosyncrasy, their environment in general; the spirit with which they preserved or rejected the genre of life of their predecessors, love and attachment, or lack of love and disaffection towards family and social group.

People occupy a specific place in the unions to which they belong, are in a particular range of society and perform certain functions in the grouping of the city and the State. The people we consider live, in addition, immersed in an environment, in certain circumstances and at a time determined at every step by culture, economy, politics, work, industry, concord, hope and ideas.

Considering all these elements, Professor José Guillén completes in this volume the evolution of the life and customs of the Romans throughout their history. An encyclopedia, already classic, of the Latin world called Vrbs Roma. Fifty chapters grouped around: 1. The Romans and their language; 2. Constitution of the Roman people; 3. The social classes of citizens; 4. Free people in Rome; 5. Slavery in Rome; 6. The woman; 7. Death and testament.

ENGLISH: Urbs Roma, vol. IV. Formation and Development of Roman Society.

The fourth volume of this massive work deals with a variety of topics: language, the origins of Rome, social classes, freedom and slavery, women, death…