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Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: The Five Fs
Lecture no. 7 from the course: The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome
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Taught by Professor Gregory S. Aldrete | 31 min | Categories: History
You might think of Rome as a grand city filled with shining marble and peopled with decadent-toga-clad citizens. In reality, the city was a swampy, stinking, disease-ridden mess with filth in the streets and a fire nearly every night in one of its buildings. See what life would have been like for Rome’s ordinary citizens.
24 Lectures
1
Dawn of the Roman Empire
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of 35 min
2
Augustus, the First Emperor
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of 32 min
3
Tiberius and Caligula
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of 32 min
4
Claudius and Nero
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of 31 min
5
The Flavian Emperors and Roman Bath Culture
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of 31 min
6
The Five Good Emperors
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of 33 min
7
Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: The Five Fs
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of 31 min
8
Roman Art and Architecture
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of 32 min
9
Roman Literature
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of 32 min
10
The Ordinary Roman Speaks: Graffiti
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of 31 min
11
Final Words: Burial and Tombstone Epitaphs
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of 30 min
12
From Commodus to Caracalla
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of 32 min
13
The Crisis of the 3rd Century
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of 31 min
14
Diocletian and Late 3rd-Century Reforms
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of 32 min
15
Early Christianity and the Rise of Constantine
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of 32 min
16
Constantine and His Successors
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of 32 min
17
Gladiators and Beast Hunts
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of 32 min
18
Chariot Racing, Spectacles, and Theater
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of 32 min
19
The Roman Army
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of 32 min
20
Barbarians Overwhelm the Western Empire
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of 31 min
21
The Byzantine Empire
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of 32 min
22
When and Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
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of 32 min
23
Late Antiquity: A New Historical Era
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of 34 min
24
Echoes of Rome
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of 38 min
