Daily Life in Rome

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Daily Life in Rome
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Description of Rome

• Rome was very crowded, noisy, smoky, and dusty
• Huge buildings and temples
• Large state festivals, games, dramas, races,
  fighting events

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Clothing

• Togas were not in style for long
• Tunics were used instead
• Similar to a long t-shirt (linen in the summer
  wool in the winter)
• Men would wear rings (sign of wealth)
• Women wore lots of jewelry (pearls were their
  favorite)

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School

• Goal of education was to be an effective speaker
• Only wealthy were able to receive formal
  education
• Taught counting, grammar, Latin, Greek
• Poor were sometimes educated at home
• Girls were taught domestic skills

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Baths

• Men and women tried to visit the baths once a day
• Hot and cold pools, towels, slaves to wait on
  you, steam rooms, saunas, exercise rooms, hair
  cutting salons
• Some were small (300 people) some were huge
  (1500 people)
• No kids allowed

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Roman Houses

• Plebeians lived in apartment style houses
• Sometimes entire families (grandparents, parents,
  children) lived in one apartment
• Did not have toilets, running water
• Wealthy had large houses with courtyards
• Some had baths, plumbing, running water
• Beautiful paintings have been found on the walls
  mosaic floors

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Entertainment

• Lots of theatres
• Colosseum held 45,000 people
• Bloody combat sometimes flooded with water for
  naval battles
• Animal vs. human events
• Gladiator events

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Roman Families

• Head of the family was the oldest male (could be
  an uncle)
• He owned all the property and was responsible for
  the actions of his family
• Woman had no authority
• She took care of the house
• During the empire women had more rights
• Could own property, free slaves, make wills, get
  s job

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Roman Buildings

• Roman invented concrete which allowed them to
  build strong buildings and build them quickly
• Roman roads connected the empire and made travel
  much easier
• Aqueducts brought water from springs in the hills
• Some were 40 miles long

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Gladiators / Slavery

• Three types of gladiators
• Samnite, Secutor, retiarius
• Trained at schools called a Ludus

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Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• For the poor food was very simple olives,
  cheese, raisins, bread
• Upper class enjoyed all the foods of the world
• Children sometimes served their parents
• Lunch was eaten around 11 oclock
• Lunch was followed by a 2-3 hour break

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Religion

• The Romans routinely adopted other religions from
  conquered people

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Economy

• Agricultural based economy