Society and politics in ancient Rome; essays and sketches, Abbott, Frank Frost, 1860-1924. text New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1909. eng Most of the papers reprinted from various periodicals. cf. Prefatory note. Municipal politics in Pompeii.--The story of two oligarchies.--Women and public affairs under the Roman Republic.--Roman women in the trades and professions.--The theatre as a factor in Roman politics under the Republic.--Petronius: a study in ancient realism.--A Roman Puritan [Persius]--Petrarch's letters to Cicero.--Literature and the common people of Rome.--The career of a Roman student.--Some spurious inscriptions and their authors.--The evolution of the modern forms of the letters of our alphabet.