Guide picks
Daily Life in Rome
Family roles, names, slavery, and dining in ancient Rome.
Death - Suicide - Funerals - Afterlife
Beliefs about the afterlife and death, mourning, lamentation, funeral arrangements, cremation and burial.
Eclipses
Superstitions and uses to which military strategists put foreknowledge of the sun's disappearance.
Food, Drink and the Baths
Other than being outside more than we are, social life really hasn't changed too much.
Greek House Plan
Section on the layout of an ancient Greek house, from William Stearns Davis' A Day in Old Athens (1910).
Medicine
Documentation of surprisingly advanced and apparently horrendously barbaric practices in the areas of health and medicine.
Megalithic Monuments
Stone circles and other objects whose purpose now escapes us, but which may have been objects of religious veneration or solar calendar mechanisms.
Military
Conquer or be conquered. Battles, weapons, arms, and ancient soldiers.
Money
Taxes, coins, numismatics, economics, and ancient attitudes towards money.
Prostitution - Greece and Rome
Prostitution offered ancient women income and a measure of freedom denied respectable matrons.
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