Daily Life In the Roman Empire
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- Daily Life In the Roman Empire
- Life is great in the Roman Empire!
- Rome is an amazing place if you have money. For example, . . .
- Not for all of us! What’s so good about your daily life?
- Law and Order
- Well we have to hide our wealth by wearing old dirty togas and make sure that our wives and kids do not go outside by themselves, to ensure that we do not get robbed.
- We are almost always protected because the police keep an eye on our neighborhoods, to make sure that we do not get robbed.
- See, it may be great for you, but we face harsher punishments if we break a law, which can sometimes even be considered as torture.
- Family Life
- Well in my community, we often have well-paid political positions. Our women run our households and train the family's slaves, which leaves us to just have to run our businesses.
- Speaking about our families, I not only have to work, but my wife also has to work in order to feed and care for our children.
- Food and Drinks
- For our meals we ate nice elaborate dinners. We get to have a main meal and we sometimes have special appetizers. One of my favorite appetizers is mice cooked in honey. We would also shop for the perfect food for our perfect dinners.
- See you may be able to have nice dinners, but even though we work very hard we have to cook on small grills and we depend on “fast-food” places called thermopolia, where people could buy hot and cold foods that were ready to eat. Sometimes we even have to eat chunks of fish along with some asparagus for dinner and a fig for dessert.
- Education
- When it comes to education, our boys and girls are tutored by their fathers, or often by slaves, until they are about six years old and then our boys go off to school. Classes are held in public buildings and private homes. Many of our tutors were educated Greek slaves.
- Lucky, we barely even get an education. Many of our children are sent to work instead of being sent to school. They learn about trades, such as leatherworking and metalworking, to help earn money for their families, which helps us.
- The End
- Overall, our lives are completely different from each other, even though we both live in Rome.
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