cramped and smelly housing. Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome that remains ...

According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished his twin brother Remus to become the city’s first king. What began as a small ...

The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ... Women were expected to look after the houses and very few had any real independence. The boundaries between the different classes ...