Life in Ancient Rome

 At the beginning of the day the ancient Romans ate breakfast. For the higher class citizens, the patricians, their meal consisted of fresh meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, bread, and used honey to sweeten food, while the lower-class plebeians ate bread dipped in wine or just dry bread. As you have read, the two classes had very different lifestyles. Roman housewives used many of the same spices used today by cooks to hide the usually rancid tasting meat. 

    The Romans thought entertainment was essential to life. They enjoyed  watching bloody sports, going to the arena to watch other sports, they also went to the theater regularly. The Romans thought fashion was very important and went out of their way to be in fashion. Women of all classes wore jewelry. They even had mirrors of highly polish pieces of metal. 

    The Romans uses garlic for many purposes, as a spice, used as and ointment, and they even gave soldiers a dose each day to improve their welfare. The Romans even had combs to remove hair lice. They had an aqueduct system to bring fresh water to the city, and kept drinking water away from the drainage systems. In Ancient Rome, children still had playthings. The wealthy children also went to school. 

    Religion was very important to the Romans. They worshiped them daily  they feared them, were very superstitious about them, but the Greeks gave their gods a more human like aspect, the Romans held them above all things. Doing something against one of the gods was considered a crime and could be punished very severely.

    Punishment in Rome was very severe, mostly they made the person suffer for doing what they did, not putting them n jail. There first of all, were not many jails. Many crimes carried the death sentence. There were many ways of executing someone some of them are: sword, ax and by stoning, throwing stones at a person until he/she died.

Courtesy of Jeffrey Chen