Daily Rome

Rhiannon Garth-Jones explores Rome's enduring legacy through three core themes: religion, empire, and culture. Each chapter examines how Rome’s history, governance, and mythology have been reimagined throughout centuries, and how these interpretations continue to shape our modern world.

So you’ve fallen through a wormhole and landed in the world’s greatest empire—minus running water, antibiotics, or basic human-rights laws. Relax. This snark-powered handbook shows you how to stay alive long enough to brag about it back home. Inside you’ll learn: Instant Street Smarts – Navigate gladiator mobs, tavern scams, and chariot traffic like a born-and-bred Roman. Blend-In Blueprint – Master toga etiquette, dining dos and don’ts (yes, the garum smells), and why you should never call a senator “dude.” Health & Hygiene Hacks – Outsmart plague, parasites, and public...

Would you like to learn about daily life in ancient Rome, but find conventional history books a bit boring? Would you like a more entertaining way to learn about Roman history, from the Republic to the Empire? We have a look at Roman sanitation, medicine, education, wine, sex, bathing, dining, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health from an accessible, non-academic perspective in this book, as well as looking at some of the perils or downsides in these advances in civilization. We discuss the developments in these aspects of daily life.

This audiobook offers the perfect explanation of how the Roman empire began, how it was run, what some of the emperors did, and much more. You’ll also find out why and how it ended, how the wars influenced their expansion and shrinkage, and other facts.

Ancient Greece has laid way for some of the most influential people, systems and stories of our civilization. It is hard to believe on one hand because technology-wise the Greeks were very primitive, yet on the other hand they were essentially on of the earliest roots of Western civilization.