Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient ... lived in a domus. This was a house built ...

Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill ... The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ...