What It Was Like To Live In Ancient Rome During Its Golden Age

Ancient Rome was at its apex from the second century BC through the second century AD. During the Pax Romana of the first and second centuries AD, Rome benefited from the expansion of its empire, with vast amounts of wealth and diverse cultural influences flooding into its borders.

What was Ancient Rome like? It had a little bit of everything. The city of Rome was a bustling urban center full of commoners, animals, and politicians - all running into each other on crowded streets, in public buildings, and at any number of sporting events.

Life in Ancient Rome was full of excitement, with plenty of opportunities for entertainment and spectacle contributing to the cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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[TheRamGuy]

Crazy to think that 2000 years ago Rome had sewers and running water yet today alot of people in the world still dont have access to either

[giuseppesalvo]

In ancient Rome a very common practice was eating outside for lunch, because people often were very busy doing their jobs. They ate flat bread (very similar to an ancient version of pizza) with pork olive oil and wine at lunch. What I truly find fascinating is the fact that Romans ate figs and bread at breakfast, a practice very common in South Italy even today

[ExactThunder]

I wish they had cameras 2000 years ago

[incrediblesrinkingman]

"They were small, and poorly built" built yet still standing 1000 years later lol

[MrCdog]

Actually, recent discoveries have proven that the sponge on a stick may have been used for cleaning the toilets, not as a communal bum wiper. I don’t think even the romans would share a bum wiper. Lol

[cheeher]

I think the Roman days were better than the Medieval days.

[NxTTxT]

"communal butt sponge"
Me: terrified shriek of horror

[DeezNuts-zqxf]

400 years from now: What it was like to be on twitter in 2021

[Dayvid]

I wanna hear this guy say "PBS is made possible by viewers like you."

[delusionsofgrandeur]

“...Had to scrape the oil off their own garbage bodies” 😂🤣😂🤣

[biblical]

Looking at Rome and it’s history really hits home how significant they truly were. We would genuinely so much further behind, technology wise, if Rome and its empire didn’t exist.

[boosiel]

“Communal butt sponge”
Aye I need the sponge pass it over g

[jayp]

The murder of julius caesar was one the most dramatic things in roman history, dude had potential

[Mirokuofnite]

Citizens who lived in Rome probably got use to the sound of chariots going up and down the street at night. In a lot of mining towns in the American West the stampmills ran 24/7. It's been said in a number of towns that when the stampmills stopped people found it hard to sleep due to the silence.

[Scarshadow]

My dad, after listening to university lectures online for old retirees that like to continue college education, has told me that if people of modern day actually time traveled to ancient Rome, the putrid stench would make us faint...

So glad that things like germs are no longer seen as a theory...😳😳😳

[zeebo]

Man I always wished I could go back into different times in history just to witness things for myself 😢

[pyramid_iremide]

I'm addicted to this guy's voice

[ElvenGodFromHell]

1:51

The first ever "T-Pose" recorded in history of mankind.

[chrisdooley]

For all the bad things I’d still love to time travel back to Ancient Rome, perhaps during Vespasian and his rule. I could see many amazing things being constructed and I’ll have just missed the string of utterly nuts rulers like Nero before him. I’d see the colosseum being started in 80 C.E as well. Such an interesting place in history

[floridaman]

This would be incredible to travel back in time to see. Think of all the wonders lost to time we could see.