Name: What It Was Like To Live In Ancient Rome During Its Golden Age
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The hottest place to live from the second century BC

through the second century AD was, no doubt, ancient Rome.

Though like any major city, it wasn't always

Sometimes it was insanely loud streets and using something

called a communal sponge to wipe your bum with.

Today, we're looking at what was life like in ancient Rome

But before we dive into the glamorous life of the Romans,

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began taking census information to assist

with the needs of the growing population.

believed to be in the hundreds of thousands

during the first century BC and shooting up as high as 800,000

by the reign of Augustus and hitting as many as a cool

Rome was a hodgepodge of free men and women with varying

degrees of wealth and some not so free men

and women who contributed to the population frenzy that

created a very crowded city with not a lot of space

Housing was extremely limited with a population of this size,

so the city developed insula, or tenements.

alongside businesses and shops with large numbers of people

They were several stories high, poorly built,

They were also susceptible to being on fire, collapse,

An alternative to the ever appealing dorm room

coffin-like insula was a single family home known as the domus.

The domus was appealing to the wealthier Roman resident.

And the richer the Roman, the bigger the domus.

Domus featured one or two stories with reception,

halls living rooms or atria, several bedrooms, dining rooms,

a kitchen, and bathroom adjoined outdoor spaces for relaxing.

Larger houses might contain several bathrooms and even

A domus was in Rome was smaller than most houses

in other cities due to the tight topography

and space of the city during the Roman Empire.

The locations of domus in Rome are difficult to pin down,

outside the danger of a rising Tiber River

and close to places of imperial importance.

And unlike the poorly constructed hobo shanties

of the very safe sounding insula were standalone structures

that didn't face crowded Roman streets directly.

As mentioned previously, bathing and cleanliness of Rome

were slightly less conventional than what

with pools, steam rooms, and dry heat rooms

where people could clean themselves, carry out business

The public bars were coed until the practice

Hadrian famously gave a veteran he saw one of his own slaves

The honor of scraping oil off a human body,

normally done with a strigil, belonged to servants

for the wealthy people, while poor trash people

had to scrape the oil off their own garbaged bodies.

The number of baths in Rome increased from first century BC

through the fifth century AD and got even more fancy

with the addition of fountains and gymnasias.

By 400 AD, it is estimated 800 to 900 public baths

Emperors such as Trajan, Caracalla, and Diocletian

gifted Rome elaborate baths that could serve thousands of Romans

Diocletian built the largest, a structure

with massive pools lined with marble clad walls and granite

fell to the fuller, who provided an essential service to Romans

since most didn't wash their own clothes.

Without the benefits and later internet hilarity of Tide Pods,

fullers got creative in finding ways to bleach linens and wool

Pee would be diluted with water thrown into a vat,

and fullers would stop around in the bucket

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