anyone know wanything about ancient rome? post ANYTHING you know!!!! thanx?

Question

im diong a project so i need all the help i can get

Answer 1

As a previous poster said, there is so much that can be said about ancient Rome, that nothing that can be written in YA! can do it justice.

But if there is one point I would like to touch upon, and this was quite a shock to me, was the difference between the sensationalist hollywood version of Rome, and the Rome that actually existed in history. What we read about in the fiction is only loosely based on the more dramatic and gripping elements of Roman society. Thus, most people think of Romans as being bloodthirsty, depraved, warlike, and rigidly class-based. The historical evidence points more to a people that have a startlingly modern outlook on life.

For example, did you know that the Romans were the first welfare state? Thousands of Romans depended on state-provided amenities, such as public hospitals, public restrooms, public housing (the state also had structural codes to make sure any building constructed was structurally sound), even publically provided food for the poor.

Romans took several baths a day at the public baths, owned small businesses (even women were allowed to own and operate their own business), ate at fast food restaurants (and even started the practice of tipping waiters for good service).

They were protected by the finest military the world had yet seen. The cities had their own urban cohort, which acted as both a police force, riot patrol, and firefighter brigade. In peacetime, the armies patrolled the road, keeping the roads safe. Piracy in the mediteranean had been virtually eliminated. At its height, the Roman army composed of less than 1% of its total population. The peace that Rome bought typically lasted for centuries.

Do some digging. There is so much about Rome that is hidden under modern sensationalism that you may surprise even yourself while doing your research

Answer 2

The Romans kept enormous volumes of records, and they were the first society in which reading for entertainment was a widespread practice.

As a result, "Ancient Rome" is by far the best documented of ancient communities. The amount of information that exists is just mind-boggling, and there is far too much to say for a person to be able to answer an open-ended question such as yours.

And most of what you get here on this board will be hearsay and things that people think they remember from some movie they remember seeing a few years back or from a history course they took in high school when they were paying attention to something else.

So please, if you want to learn something about Rome and the Romans, go to the library and pull down a couple of books on Rome and read the article in Encyclopaedia Britannica. You can find large amounts of stuff on the internet, but the library is much better.

You just won't learn anything if we just give it to you. You have to go and learn how to get your own information.

Good luck.

Answer 3

There's a lot to tell. They basically shaped the entire western world from roads in which their "pony express" was twice as fast as the old west mail company. A person could travel from Egypt to Scotland to Syria using one currency, one passport and one language. They had gruesome death penalties such as the sentence for matricide. (Killing of ones mother) They put the guilty party into a large sack with a snake, dog and a gorilla and threw it into the river so the person wouldn't drown but would be torn to pieces by the other three animals trying to escape. One of the easiest ancient texts to read about the Roman Empire is Suetonious' book "The Twelve Caesars."

Answer 4

To get a very good idea of the culture, watch the mini-series I, Claudius or read the book "The Unwilling Vestal" by Edwin White. The book is available at http://www.gutenberg.net. You might also check out programs the Discovery channel has done on Pompey and other Roman towns.

Oh, the Emperor Vespasian was the one who created pay toilets. There was a tax on people who used the public toilets.

Answer 5

Caligula had his horse elected to the senate ...
I think.
and the men wore togas, which were like dresses.
only high-ranking men could wear purple trim on their togas.
and ... you should just go to the library, there are lots of good books on ancient Rome.
I just can't remember anything I read in any of them.
;O)

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_Rome