Cities of the Ancient World
Season 1, Episode 18: The Good Life in Rome
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Travel through Rome in the footsteps of a well-to-do citizen, from his freestanding apartment complex to the political happenings at the Forum Romanum to the Markets of Trajan. Then witness how all social classes interacted at the public baths, where lower classes wrangled dinner invitations from wealthy Romans.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Lure of the City
Episode 2
Çatalhöyük—First Experiment in Urban Living
Episode 3
Jericho and Its Walls
Episode 4
Uruk—City of Gilgamesh
Episode 5
Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
Episode 6
Kahun—Company Town in the Desert
Episode 7
Work and Life at Deir el-Medina
Episode 8
Amarna—Revolutionary Capital
Episode 9
Knossos—Palace, City, or Temple?
Episode 10
Akrotiri—Bronze Age Pompeii
Episode 11
Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon
Episode 12
Athens—Civic Buildings and Civic Identity
Episode 13
Athenian Domestic Architecture
Episode 14
Hippodamian Planning—Miletus and Ephesus
Episode 15
Olynthus—A Classical Greek City Preserved
Episode 16
Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria
Episode 17
Pergamon—The New Theatricality
Episode 18
The Good Life in Rome
Episode 19
The Lives of the Poor in Rome
Episode 20
Ostia—Middle-Class Harbor Town
Episode 21
Timgad—More Roman Than Rome
Episode 22
Karanis—On the Fringes of the Empire
Episode 23
Constantinople—The Last Ancient City
Episode 24
Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life