ROMAN LIFE IN A NUTSHELL

ROMAN CENSUS

• Every 5 years a roman male citizen had to register for the Census
• The Census included where you lived, how many people lived there and your family's income
• Failing to turn in a census resulted being sold into slavery

THE FORUM

• The roman forum was first stared as a uninhabited swamp
• Then the first roman paved streets were made called the Via Scara
• Heart of Rome
• Ceaser added the Basilica Juila which initiated The furoms greatest splendour

CITY SHOPS AND MARKETS

• With the Forum being the centre of Roman life shops moved as closley as they could.
• The Forum had its one shop but they had some leading out of it.
• 2 of the main shops were Vicus tuscus and argiletumm.
• The Vicus Tucus was the spices shop
• And the Argiletumm was the Book Store.

THE SUBURA

• All wealthy would stay away from the Subura
• The Subura was one of the poorer parts of rome
• Alley ways were notorious for having thiefs who would still womens purses
• Julius Ceaser onced lived here
• Also the subura had a large market where the poor and the slaves were in charge of households did their Shopping

ROMANS IDENTITY AND HONOR

• In the roman society conformation by others was sought out as well as required
• A "goodman" was made worthy by other people.
• noble deeds might be done, but without people knowing of them there was no glory,
• Glory and Honor only moved you up in the social ladder

NOBILITY

• Nobility was not simply bestowed upon an individual.
• It was graudally built up or torn down by a family.
• Three fathers was the duration required to mark a mans noble status
• The Three were the the father,grandfather and great grandfather

THE CLIENT SYSTEM

• A client was a loyal supporter to a high standing Roman family
• The head of the higher family was the patronus, patron.
• The clients were like the Clan for the Patron.
• The patron woud always aid his clients.

THE TWO TRADITIONAL PARTIES

• The two types of parties were the populares and the optimates
• The Populares was the People's Party.
• The Optimates was the Senitoral Party
• The populares were for the extension of citizenship to provincials.
• The optimates were the opposing conservative force.

RULERS OF THE REPUBLIC

• Rome was a realm of quasi kings: magistrates and senators.
• The Senate was made of old magistaries was an imposing sight to behold
• The romans were utterly hostile of an idea for a king.

THE WORKING DAY

• Roman would usually get up early and work a six hour day.
• Women stayed home,
• Many of the workers were traders and businessmen of the city.
• Common jobs were Architects and engineers, surveyors, foremen, sculptors.

INDUSTRY

• Latium, the area around Rome, was initially an agricultural region.
• Pottery was introduced from Campania and the art of bronze-casting etrium
• Genoa, Ostia and Ravenna were Rome's major harbours, providing her with warships as well as benefiting from the rise in shi
• The iron industry flourished
• Fertilee soil brought forth riches

WOMEN OF ROME

• Women always had guardians
• They were seen as to weak to live alone
• As young girls thier education was nearly the same
• The woman was seem as a companion
• Marriage gaied a wife considerable of freedom

SLAVES

• Slavery was not frowned upon but seen as a necessity
• Economy became heavily dependt upon slave trade and labour
• All slaves were regarged as very important no matter the job
• Cruelty against slaves were unreal, they were seen as human beings

EDUCATION

• Young children education was completely in the hands of their parents
• When Wealth increased the education offered philospohy and oratory
• Reading writing and arithmetic
• Rhetoric was introduced yo school early on

DRESS

• Toga
• Stola and Palla
• Priest Toga
• The pallium cloak

FOOD AND DRINK

• The romans did not have coffe tea liquor sugar potatoes or even tomatoes
• Sweets made with honey or must
• Olives and olive were in high esteem
• Rome had the best wines

THE ARMY

• The Roman army diet was very nutritious
• Rarely meat; aside from banquet
• Vegetbales fruits chicken cheese and porks

THE POOR

• For the longest time they could only get corn and grain
• AD 274- prok oil and saly were added to their options
• Fond of mushrooms

THE WEALTHY

• Those who possed wealth to eat ate fancy
• Day began with Jentaculum then Prandium and finally Cena
• Wealthy Had many dinner parties upon retirement

LIQUAMEN

• The liquamen is a type of sauce
• Sauce produced out of fish entrails and mixed with chopped fish

HOLIDAYS AND GAMES

• Staggering number of public holidays
• a total of 159 public holidays
• One of their games were chariots races and gladitoral combats

THE FAMILY

• THe family wold include everyone in a certain household
• The father, the wife, the children, and the slaves that lived there
• Family would split if the great grand father passes
• as a young men it was impossible to have a political carreer

THE GENS

• Romans apaprt from being in a family they would also be in a gen
• a gen is best described as a clan
• There was no nobility gained from being in a gen
• Names would e given in gens

MARRIAGE

• Roman marriage is a rather cold affair
• Had nothing to do with love
• Procreation is what was counted
• Men would go to all kind of lengths to prove they werent hen pecked

FUNERAL

• The woman of the house prepared the body
• small coin was placed for Charon of the underworld
• Poor en were buried the same way they died
• Corpse was either buried or cremated

ROMAN HOUSE

• The roman house had 15 different rooms
• Very similiar to our homes

ROMAN ADRESS

• ROme had majr street names
• People would use relative directions
• (the road to that tree)

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