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Daily Life in Rome
A ten‑minute glimpse into the homes, food, work, markets, family, clothing and adornment of ordinary Romans.
Chapters
- 0:07 Home and Family
- 0:42 Food and Drink
- 1:06 Work and Urban Infrastructure
- 1:42 Clothing and Adornment
On-screen text
- 0:07 Home and Family
- 0:24 Law rewards marriage, punishes childlessness Historical record · Lex Papia Poppaea (inscription, AD 9)
- 0:42 Food and Drink
- 0:49 Food and Drink
- 1:15 Artisans work in a multi‑storey insula Historical record · Excavations of the Insulae at Ostia
- 1:33 Covered sewer beneath the city Historical record · Archaeological evidence of the Cloaca Maxima
- 1:42 Clothing and Adornment
- 1:50 Toga marks citizenship for men Historical record · Suetonius, Life of Augustus 27
Sources
Historical record: Vitruvius, De Architectura I.1 · Lex Papia Poppaea (inscription, AD 9) · Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.9 · Apicius, De Re Coquinaria, recipe for panis · Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.54 · Archaeological remains of the Forum Boarium · Frontinus, De Aquaeductu · Excavations of the Insulae at Ostia · Archaeological evidence of the Cloaca Maxima · Suetonius, Life of Augustus 27 · Jewelry from the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (Capitoline Museums)
Tradition / scripture: Roman religious tradition (Lupercalia)
The Institute's interpretation: Petronius, Satyricon 31
Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 58 s of CPU.
Scenes Hathor has no parts for yet (25) — the next things to make
- Interior of a domus showing a family gathered under the open‑roof atrium, rainwater falling into a shallow pool.
- Interior of a domus showing a family gathered under the open‑roof atrium, rainwater falling into a shallow pool.
- Interior of a domus showing a family gathered under the open‑roof atrium, rainwater falling into a shallow pool.
- A teacher in a modest classroom holding a stylus while boys copy letters onto wax tablets.
- Wealthy family reclining on couches in a triclinium, servants bringing dishes, a lyre player nearby.
- Wealthy family reclining on couches in a triclinium, servants bringing dishes, a lyre player nearby.
- A baker shaping loaves in a communal oven, a basket of freshly baked bread on a wooden table.
- A baker shaping loaves in a communal oven, a basket of freshly baked bread on a wooden table.
- A woman pouring golden oil into a lamp and drizzling it over a salad in a kitchen courtyard.
- Merchants herding cattle through a stone‑paved square, buyers examining the animals.
- Merchants herding cattle through a stone‑paved square, buyers examining the animals.
- Majestic arches of an aqueduct with water flowing, citizens gathering at a marble fountain.
- Majestic arches of an aqueduct with water flowing, citizens gathering at a marble fountain.
- Majestic arches of an aqueduct with water flowing, citizens gathering at a marble fountain.
- Work and Urban Infrastructure: Explore occupations, housing, sanitation, and the engineering that kept the city running.
- Stone channel of the Cloaca Maxima with workers clearing debris, the Tiber visible in the background.
- Stone channel of the Cloaca Maxima with workers clearing debris, the Tiber visible in the background.
- Majestic arches of an aqueduct with water flowing, citizens gathering at a marble fountain.
- Majestic arches of an aqueduct with water flowing, citizens gathering at a marble fountain.
- A male citizen adjusting his white toga on a marble step in the Forum.
- A male citizen adjusting his white toga on a marble step in the Forum.
- A woman in a flowing stola walking through a market, her head covered with a palla.
- A woman in a flowing stola walking through a market, her head covered with a palla.
- Close‑up of a woman's neck displaying intricate gold filigree and ruby earrings.
- Priests in animal skins running through the Forum, crowds cheering, bonfires burning.