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Curiosities of ancient Rome (Unknown facts)

The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.

How did ancient Romans lose weight?

Many people ask themselves how to lose weight in an easy and fun way. The answer to this question is not easy. As it turns out, people in ancient times had similar problems. Let us ask ourselves: how did the ancient Romans lose weight?

17 September 2022

Roman mosaic showing women playing a ball

Why couldn’t ancient Roman women drink wine?

In Roman times, there was a law forbidding women from consuming wine on pain of flogging or the death penalty. Cato the Elder, called the Censor, spoke bluntly: If you see your wife drinking wine, kill her! Why are the Romans so strict how did they approach the consumption of wine by women?

17 September 2022

Why couldn't ancient Roman women drink wine?

Disruptions in Roman market

The turmoil in the financial markets and in the real economy made state intervention necessary. Carrying out active measures to limit the effects of the crisis, however, is nothing new and was used hundreds of years ago, as evidenced by the history of one of the first banking crises in history, which took place in the Roman Empire.

15 September 2022

Music in life of ancient Romans

Music in ancient Rome was often associated with work. The singing was supposed to give it a rhythm and a good pace. For example, rowers worked listening to the so-called hortator, that is, they rowed to the rhythm of the music.

14 September 2022

First proposal of life imprisonment

In 63 BCE Cicero, who was the consul, gave his famous speech at a Senate meeting against Lucius Sergius Catilina, a member of an impoverished old patrician family, whom he accused of a planned coup.

13 September 2022

In semicircle

In ancient Greece, women waxed the bikini line with tar in the shape of a triangle. Roman women depilated themselves in a semicircle, which was confirmed by the plaster casts of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 CE.

12 September 2022

Seneca’s satire mocking Claudius

Seneca the Younger, a Roman philosopher and writer from the 1st century CE, wrote a satire about Emperor Claudius in revenge for his exile to Corsica in 41 CE. He titled his work: “The Pumpkinification of (the Divine) Claudius” (Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii). Naturally, he wrote his work during the reign of Nero, after Claudius was murdered in 54 CE.

11 September 2022

In ancient Rome, children worked hard

Hard living conditions and poverty often force minors to work. It was no different in ancient Rome, where it was not uncommon to see a small child working physically.

11 September 2022

Roman tombstone commemorating a boy miner

Imperial staff in ancient Rome

In 1726, a great tomb (columbarium) was discovered at via Appia, in which, as it turned out, the ashes of almost a thousand slaves and freedmen belonging to the first empress Livia were buried. In the tomb, there were also badges with names and professions written on them.

11 September 2022

Exile of philosophers during reign of Domitian

According to ancient sources, at the beginning of his reign, Domitian (81-96 CE) was to lead to the expulsion of philosophers from Rome and Italy and forbid the Romans to deal with philosophy.

11 September 2022

Curiosities of ancient Rome (Unknown facts)

How did ancient Romans lose weight?

Why couldn’t ancient Roman women drink wine?

Disruptions in Roman market

Music in life of ancient Romans

First proposal of life imprisonment

In semicircle

Seneca’s satire mocking Claudius

In ancient Rome, children worked hard

Imperial staff in ancient Rome

Exile of philosophers during reign of Domitian

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