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Daily Life in the Roman Empire
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Daily Life in the Roman Empire
35.7 Housing
35.10 country life
- 90% of the empire's people lived in the country.
- Housing was very different for the rich and for the poor.
- Wealthy Romans villas (country estates) = money investment in crops and livestock.
- The spacious, airy homes of the rich were also next to the small, dark apartments of the poor.
- Wealthy = grand houses built of stone and marble with thick walls.
- Also acted as a holiday home = reading, writing, hunting, picnicking and walking.
- Atrium = foyer with a pool to keep it cool and an open roof for light.
- The farms provided much of the food for Rome and other cities.
- The fanciest room was the dining room with paintings and mosaics.
- Grain for bread, grapes for wine, olives for oil and goats/sheep for cheese and wool.
- Some had fountains and statues.
- Cattle also provided meat and bees provided honey.
- Guests lay on couches, eating delicious food, listening to music played by slaves.
- Slaves did much of the work and were treated cruelly.
- Poor crowded into tall apartment buildings, others lived above where they worked.
- Even those who were not slaves but poor had very hard lives, trying to earn eog t survive.
- Poor cooked their meals on small portable grills which filled the room with smoke.
- Filth and disease caused sickness and spread rapidly.
"He who does not work shall not eat"
- Fires were often. In 64 C.E. a large fire burned down much of the city.
35.9 Recreation
- Wealthy Romans had a lot of leisure time because the slaves did all the work.
- The rich enjoyed plays and musical performances in each other houses.
- Rich and poor relaxed in the public baths for bathing, swimming, exercising, steaming and massages.
- The baths also had gardens, libraries, shops and art galleries.
- Roman emperors gave the poor "bread and circuses" to keep them busy and happy.
- Rich and poor watched chariot races and gladiator contests.
- Gladiators fight in large public arenas like the COLOSSEUM.
- Both men and women were gladiators, usually slaves or prisoners of war.
- Some won or bought their freedom in time.
- A favourite gathering place was the CIRCUS MAXIMUS a huge racetrack with 200, 000 spectators.
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