What Did People in Ancient Rome Actually Do All Day ?

What did an ordinary Roman actually do from sunrise to sunset? Join Vladius for one full day in ancient Rome and find out why a Roman hour could last 45 or 75 minutes, why thousands of men put on a heavy toga at dawn just to say "good morning", why the philosopher Seneca had to move out of his flat, and why going to dinner without making your will first was, according to Juvenal, reckless. In this video you'll learn: Why the first public sundial in Rome showed the wrong time for almost a century Why Roman nights were noisier than Roman days What life was like on the top floor of a Roman apartment block How the morning greeting (salutatio) turned clients into a rich man's walking advertisement Where Romans grabbed lunch, and where the word "siesta" comes from What a Roman bathhouse sounded like, in Seneca's own complaint What Pliny the Younger served at a dinner his friend skipped for oysters Who protected Rome from fire at night, and how many Roman days were spent at the games ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Waking up in Rome 0:32 Hours that changed with the seasons 1:30 Night carts and tall apartment blocks 2:33 The morning greeting 3:34 Lawyers, shops and a very loud school 4:42 Women and enslaved workers 5:30 Water for a million people 5:59 Lunch and the first siesta 6:49 The baths 8:14 Dinner from egg to apple 9:25 Rome after dark 10:08 170 days of games 10:33 So what did Romans do all day? 11:20 Romans and us 📜 Sources Martial, Epigrams Juvenal, Satires, Satire 3 Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, Letter 56 Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 7 Pliny the Younger, Letters, Book 1 Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Book 3 Strabo, Geography, Book 5 Frontinus, On the Aqueducts of Rome Suetonius, The Life of Augustus Lex Julia Municipalis (Tabula Heracleensis) The Calendar of 354 (Chronography of 354) Archaeological finds from Pompeii (street food counters, inscriptions) If you enjoyed spending a day in Rome, subscribe and tell me in the comments which Roman hour you'd want to live in! #AncientRome #RomanHistory #DailyLife