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Everyday Life in Rome? - Sachiko - 05-16-2007
What was it like?
I guess generally, it would be the same schedule as us like.. wake up, wash, eat, go to work, come back, have dinner etc?
Would there have been anything different? Were there any customs or practices that are different from our modern life?
Or can anyone recommend a webby that has interesting info on the everyday lives of Romans? :oops:
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Martin Moser - 05-16-2007
Hi Sachiko (or should I say 今日は? ;-) ) )
Quote:What was it like?
Do you read German? If yes, get
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber: Alltag im Alten Rom. Das Leben in der Stadt. Ein Lexikon.
Lots of answers to your questions in there!
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Sachiko - 05-16-2007
Eek! I can hardly make out the title..is it supposed to be "everyday in ancient rome.. the life in the state. A lexicon?"...
I can't read german >_<
I can only make out bits and pieces... Do they have an english version?
Thanks for your help
lol:
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Martin Moser - 05-16-2007
Quote:Eek! I can hardly make out the title..is it supposed to be "everyday in ancient rome.. the life in the state. A lexicon?"...
Yes, almost, it translates to: Everyday life in ancient rome.. Life in the city. A lexicon.
It's made up like a lexicon with small articles on all kinds of aspects of ancient (city) life.
Quote:I can't read german... Do they have an english version?
Afraid no :-( ( But maybe something the liek has been published in English - help, anybody?
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Carlton Bach - 05-16-2007
Nothing on the scale of weeber, but a very good introduction is Dodge/Connolly: The Ancient City. (illustrated, and covers both Classical Athens and Imperial Rome). It's basic, but not simplistic, and the authors know what they're taslking about
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - john m roberts - 05-16-2007
Carcopino's "Daily Life in Ancient Rome" is a bit dated but still very valuable and highly readable. I've used it extensively in my own writing.
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Memmia - 05-16-2007
Hi Sachiko,
You could try this book
Daily life in ancient Rome
By Florence Dupont
I have read this and it goes into great detail regarding everyday life
Regards
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Sachiko - 05-19-2007
Hello all,
thank you very much for your reccs, will definitely check them out!
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Mitra - 05-19-2007
Hi Sachiko
Interesting is also the book "histoire de la vie privée de l'empire romain a l'an mil" with an article of Paul Veyne, a second of Peter Brown and a third of Yvon Thebert.
Roman daily Life - Musivarius - 05-22-2007
Sachiko,
I've just read an extract in a newspaper from a book by Philip Matyszak, 'Rome on 5 denarii a day.' This has been written in the way of a modern city guide book, but for a visitor to Rome around 200AD. The small extract I read seemed very informative so I've ordered a copy.
Lawrence
Roman Life Website Links - Restitvtvs - 05-26-2007
Hi, Sachiko: This RAT thread <link from old RAT> has posts with "Roman Life" website links that may help. +r
Books to read - Caius Fabius - 05-26-2007
I went through my collection and then tried to find ones that are still in print, (no easy task!)
hock: I found a few that I liked for a really basic look into Roman daily life, but most of them cost $40-$75. Here is one that is not too expensive and has a lot of material.
[amazon]Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire[/amazon]
Re: Everyday Life in Rome? - Arahne - 05-27-2007
I recomend two ancient authors which will give you the picture or everyday life in some specific ways
Apuleius - Metamorphosis
Gaius Petronius Arbiter - Satiricon
Finds At Pompeii - Narukami - 05-31-2007
And speaking of Daily life in Ancient Rome...
The following article forwarded by my daughter.
Link to original article also below.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276852,00.html
[size=150:26lewx3l]RUINS OF ANCIENT POMPEII YIELD SECRETS OF ROMAN HOUSEHOLDS[/size]
Thursday , May 31, 2007
By Heather Whipps
Residents of Pompeii ate their meals on the run, just like many Americans do today, according to a new archaeological study of how households functioned in the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash.
Completely destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., Pompeii is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.
Besides its risqué statues and frisky frescoes, however, few of its artifacts have been studied in depth.
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Excavating a neighborhood block that includes one of Pompeii's grandest mansions, scientists have recently shed a lot more light on the day-to-day tasks undertaken by its citizens.
"I am looking at pots and pans and how houses actually functioned," said archaeologist Penelope Allison of the University of Leicester in England. "I am interested in revealing the utilitarian side of life rather than its glamorous side, in slaves and servants and how they lived side by side with their masters."
Allison's complete findings are published in a new book, "The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii Volume III" (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Pompeii was destroyed quickly and thus preserved like a time capsule, so Allison's findings may also carry over to other Roman towns from the same period, she said.
A non-gadget world
The ins and outs of domestic life — ranging from where food was cooked to who patched up cuts and scrapes — was the main focus of Allison's research.
Though ancient Rome was an advanced society, it can't be assumed household units worked the same way they do today, she said.
Even simple tools that were found, such cooking vessels, could be interpreted in a number of different ways.
"Today we have hundreds of very specific gadgets," she said, "but in a non-gadget world you have a number of things used for a variety of purposes, such as pots that might have been wine dippers and spindle whorls that were used as furniture ornamentation."
Jacks-of-all-Roman-trades
People also filled a number of different roles when necessary, the findings suggest.
When a child cut his knee, it didn't mean a trip to the local medical clinic, necessarily; Pompeii may have been a town full of "Dr. Moms."
"We believe that whenever we find medical instruments, they belonged to doctors. But I think that a lot more high-level first aid went on within households," Allison said. "We have found surgical instruments in domestic contexts, and I think someone in the house was responsible for sewing up injured people."
Weaving looms found in the homes also imply that women — or perhaps even men — did much of the sewing for their own families rather than purchasing clothes ready-made, she said.
Ancient fast food?
With all the sewing — of wounds and clothes — among other daily chores, busy residents of Pompeii probably had little time left for long, relaxing meals at the dinner table.
There was an absence of formal dishware sets, but an abundance of small grilling vessels (such as barbecues) found in the residences studied, indicating that people were eating-and-running on the go, Allison said.
Some things clearly don't change.
Indeed they don't. :wink: :roll: :wink:
Narukami