u/mbaucco

I'm doing some fact checking for a (fiction) book I am working on and it's really hard to find out about how regular people lived during the time of Alexander, especially in the non-Greek parts.

For instance, did you pay rent if you lived in Babylon, or did you have to buy a home? Could poor people even live in Babylon or was it all "middle-class" and up? Was there a middle class? Were they serfs in the medieval sense? Did slaves have any rights?

I'm looking for books that can help me with stuff like this. What did they eat and drink? How much did they work? What was their average day like?

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!