Plebeians were average working citizens of Rome – farmers, bakers, builders or craftsmen – who worked hard to support their families and pay their taxes. Over the course of this period, early ...

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Plebeians is about playwrights and artists as a lot, so it doesn't really matter if neither Brecht nor the East Berlin uprising was in fact what Grass recreates.

Jerusalem Post Opinion Columnists Another Tack: The less plebeians know Obsequious enlightenment dictates that provocation be kept from the general public By SARAH HONIG JANUARY 3, 2008 15:56 ...

Your article "Shopping-Mall Masters" (Weekend Journal, July 14) gives the impression that scholars like myself don't care for the kind of art you described. But, actually, I am one of a small ...

Plebeians could get a small allotment of their own land, but were then forced to overwork it to make ends meet. This could lead to debt, and perhaps slavery in the case of default. Another major ...