How Did Rome Bake Enough Bread for a Million People?

A documentary-style exploration of how ancient Rome fed a city of nearly a million people, tracing grain from the fields of Egypt and Africa through the harbors of Puteoli and Portus, up the Tiber to the city's warehouses, and into the donkey-powered mills and ovens of Roman bakers. Drawing on well-attested sources like Seneca, Suetonius, Josephus, Pliny the Elder, Procopius, and the surviving tomb of the baker Eurysaces, it follows the sailors, dockworkers, millers, bakers, and officials whose labor sustained Rome's daily bread, and traces the system's political origins, technological evolution, and eventual decline. #AncientHistory #RomanHistory #AncientRome