Ancient Rome
Leisure
Games and Entertainment
Game/spectacle
Arts
Figure
Daily life
Food
stuffing a chicken inside a duck, then the duck inside a goose, then the goose inside a pig, then the pig inside a cow, and cooking the whole thing together
peacock tongues
Family
Children
You never talked back to an elder Roman.
But they were also trained to obey elders.
They were allowed to play and visit friends
They were educated to the best of a family's ability to do so.
Mother
Roman women could not vote, hold office, or have their own names.
Roman women could inherit property, have independent wealth, initiate a divorce, and leave a will.
A Roman mother automatically lost her children to their father in the event of divorce.
Father
Only the paterfamilias could own property: whatever their age, until their father died, his sons only received an allowance, or peliculum, to manage their own households.
If they angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into slavery or even kill them.
The paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children
Roman baths
Bathing complex
use a cold bath called "frigidarium"
use a warm bath called "tepidarium"
use steam room
Places
The Antonine Baths
Herculaneum
City
Pantheon
The word Pantheon is a Greek adjective meaning “honor all Gods”. In fact the pantheon was first built as a temple to all gods.
Famous Renaissance artist Raphael was buried in the Pantheon at his own request after his death in 1520.
You could put a perfect sphere inside
It used to be covered in bronze
It still holds the record for the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world
There’s a big hole in the ceiling
It's a church
It's not as old as it looks
City of extremes
Poor
they hardly had food and lived in huts
Their masters treated them cruelly
I think the poor ones were slaves
Rich
They had more expensive houses and better resources than poor people.
The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf
Society
Soldiers
practiced hand-to-hand combat with much heavier equipment than the one used in battle
legionaries had Roman citizenship and served for 20 years
soldiers youngr than 45 were called "legionaries"
organized in contuberniums, centuries, cohorts and legions
Slaves
freed slaves could become Roman citizens
fathers could have trade their older children as slaves if they needed the money
could obtain freedom only if the owner granted this or if they bought it
people captured in battle
Plebeians
children would have the same career as their parents
bribed by emperor Augustus to prevent riot
everyday life a struggle
Patricians
political power in the Senate
great influence in society
descendants of ancient, noble families
Timeline
476 A.D.
Fall of Ancient Rome
395 AD
Roman Empire split in half
359 A.D.
Council of Constantinople
284
end of 50-year civil war
117 A.D.
Battle of Hatra and death of Trajan
98
2nd Roman emperor
64 A.D.
The Great Fire of Rome
27 BC
1st Roman emperor
43 B.C.
Octavian, Caesar's heir, defeat Antony at Mutina and is elected consul. Second Triumvirate
44 BC
Rise of Roman Empire
60 B.C.
First Triumvirate
149 BC
Third punic war
218 - 201 B.C.
Second Punic War
218 BC
Hannibal invades Rome
264 B.C.
First Punic War
62 BC
Gauls attack Rome
509 B.C.
overthrow of the Roman monarchy
753 BC
Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus
