Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr's 1999 time travel novel following a contemporary American woman transported back to Roman Carnuntum (modern Austria) on the Danube frontier — one of the most detailed fictional recreations of everyday Roman provincial life.
Provides the most detailed experiential account of everyday Roman provincial life in fiction — Household Gods' account of a 20th-century American woman experiencing Roman daily life (the smells, the violence, the medical ignorance, the social hierarchy) makes Roman civilization viscerally real in a way scholarly history cannot.
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