Daily life in Rome
A rich Roman lived in a domus with an atrium and a garden, most city people in an īnsula. Discover how a Roman day went, from salūtātiō to cēna.
Why
In your Latin text the master of the house welcomes his guests in the ātrium and then reclines in the triclīnium. Where is he, actually?
If you know what a Roman house looked like, you can picture the text: the ātrium is the big hall where you come in, the triclīnium the dining room with three couches. Without that picture these words stay strange.
Many Latin texts in the first years are about the life of a Roman family. Know the rooms and the fixed moments of the day and you understand those stories much faster, and you see how different, and sometimes how similar, life was then.
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