Rome

A travellers guide to Ancient Rome

A travellers guide to AnciEnT ROme

By sabiah khan

ContentsPage 3 Introduction

Page 4-6 Buildings

Page 7 Entertainment/Comedy

Page 8-9 Roman baths

Page 10-13 shops and markets

Page 14-15 How to stay healthy

page 16 How rome got it's name

Page 17-18 Food

Page 19- Worship

The travellers Guide to Rome

Intruduction Welcome to the travellers guide to Rome! The city in Italy is great to visit to see the buildings and the beautiful work of famous architects. You will find out what will be a pleasure to see and what you will like to stay away from. Their is loads to see and do right in Rome !

Buildings

Their are so many buildings but they aren't just in Rome they are all over Europe.For example Hadrians wall,most of us Romans built it in between Scotland and England to keep Romans safe when we were in England away from the mad scottish people.It is seventy-three miles long and fifteen feet high.The wall is joined up to Roman forts and temples near by.The wall was built by 122 romans.What you can do here:It is a great place to watch Romans from the empire train and practice and see why it was made.

Buildings

Building:Colosseum

Location-Rome,Italy

The Colosseum is what you call an amphitheatre.An amphitheatre is a open open venue building where you can watch gladiators

fighting and performances.Buildings like these are made by famous

architects that design various buildings that are famous to the rest of the country.

The colosseum was built by the emperor vesapian.It is 189 metres long and 156 metres

wide with a base area of 24,000m with a height of more than 48 meters.

It has about 80 entrances.

What you can do here:watch performances and gladiators and animals

fight.Bring snacks to watch and reserve front row

seats.

Buildings

Next we head to Fontana di Trevi.Fontana di Trevi is also known as Trevi Fountain.The fountain was madeby Nicola salvi in 1732 and completed in 1762,the middle statue at the top is Neptun (God of the sea) flanked by two tritons.People go here to get water because it is clean.It is the largest fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.

What you can do there:You can shop at the stalls on the lanes coming out of the fountain and throw a penny into the water.

Entertainment and comedy

In Rome we use people to play parts in plays or gladiators to fight.This brings us comedy to our day.Their are some serious tragedies that make us feel sorry for the characters.The actors wear masks to show if they are happy or not.They also wear wigs to show who they are e.g. a old man wears a white wig,a slave wears a red wig. If the soldiers are bored they sometimes like to play board games with dice and counters.Some Romans like to hunt down animals for fun,it is a great deal because soon they get to eat the animal on their plates. A gladiator gets a wooden sword for retirement.In big amphitheatres the stage is sometimes flooded with water with real boats floating on water and real crocodiles.

Public baths are open to everyone!Romans spend their leisure time at the baths.It is a great place to have a little chat and meet up with friends.Young Romans like to play trabula and trigon.Trabula is a board game and trigon is a very hard game played by three people where you have to catch.Their are hot and cold rooms .Their are about 170 baths in Rome.

Public Baths

Trabula

Bath

Plan of Roman baths

First at the baths we get changed at a apodyterium from their we put our clothes away which are guarded by guards. Next we go to the frigidarium which is a cold room with a cold pool we put on wooden sandals for other reasons soon told. After that we go to the tepidarium which is a warm room that we can relax in for some time. We then go to the caldarium which is the hottest room of all.The floors are too hot so we have to put the sandals on for this reason so we don't burn our feet.Their is a labrum (a fountain) to refresh yourself with.In this room you get really sweaty and get scraped with a strigil before washing in the hot bath. Finally we go back to the frigidarium to get a cool refreshing plunge to get rid of the sweaty oil.You then get changed again and leave your sandals for the next bather.

Shops & MarketsThe shops and markets are oftenly crowded with people and they are really smelly! So the rich Romans get their slaves to do the shopping for them,the slaves are usually dirty and not carred about so you wouldn't like to go near them.So this is just information to tell you not to go near the shops!

Some Roman coins used for shopping:

Family buisnessSome shops are ran by the family and the money they get they would use to live on and get more things for their shop to sell.The family would run a buisness in the market or in shops that sold:-Bakery from bakers-Fruits from fruit sellers-Tools from blacksmiths-Books from bookshop owners-medicine from chemists-food to take away from cooked meat sellers-Flowers from florists-Jewelery from jewelers-shoes from shoemakers-ointments from ointment sellers-Clothes from embroiders and dress shops

Markets in Rome sell stuff to live on and use in a normal home just like other markets around the world.Trajans market is a example of a Roman market.The complex was made in 106 AD by

Apollodorus of Damascus.Apollodorus was the most famous architect of the time when he builded the market.It has less than 150 shops and offices,each

shop is really small in size so the customers have to wait outside the shop to be served.

How to stay healthy:

To stay healthy Romans eat food like fruit,fish,vegetables and nuts.They should all stay healthy so they can have energy to fight if any battles take place and soldiers ran out although the Roman empire know they are well organized than any other empire.If any Roman falls sick they would go or get someone else to go to the shops to get medicine.Medicine was an idea from Greeks and Asians which we copied from them using their ingredients like brambles,herbs etc.

At shops and markets they sell ointments and magic spells.These are brought to get better and to cure illnesses and diseases.They seem to be very strange but we believe they can do many different things and we have been blessed by the gods for getting such magic as this.

We do sport like swimming and wrestling that makes us have a healthy body.This is very fun aswell and it is comedy for other Romans aswell.

How Rome got its name

Rome got its name by Romulus the son of the god Mars.Mars and Rhea got married and had two twins.There were plots planned about harming Rheas father,her sons and her husband Mars.To protect her boys she put her sons into a basket and let them float of into the river.When the boys woke up one of them started to cry and then a she-wolf heard.She picked the basket with her mouth and then walked on into her cave.She fed them milk and then one day the boys went out to play.A shepherd saw them play so he followed them into the cave.When the wolf was asleep the man took the boys to his house.He named them Romulus and Remus.As the twins grew older they built houses on the shores of Tiber.They both wanted to give the city a different name so they started quarreling.Suddenly Romulus picked a rock and killed his brother.Romulus got to choose the name of the place and that's how Rome got it's name.

Rich Roman food

Rich Romans love their food because it is the best in the time!Rich Romans eat stuff like stuffed door mice,roast peacock,snails with milk,peacock brains and flamingo tongues.The more weirder it is the more impressed the guests be.Females cook the food for the family and gusets.Guests get to sit on sofas to eat just like in the background they are lying down on sofas.Dinner is given in late afternoon and food like (hare,pig,beef,goat,chicken,fish and pigeon is eaten) followed by fruit and nuts.Ice cream is a treat.Lettuce is served at the end of the meal because Romans believe it helps you sleep.

Poor Roman food

Poor Romans eat food like bread,vegetable soup and porridge.Meat is given atleast once a week.If the Romans live in the countryside they go hunting for animals and fishing for sea animals.Poor homes have no stoves so they give food to the baker to cook for them.

Worship

We worship Gods and Goddesses that all come from one family.Each God or Goddess looks after different people or things.We get different Gods and Goddesses to get stronger and have a stronger empire.Isis was borrowed from Egypt and Mithras was borrowed from Iran.If we travel we would ask Mercury (God of travel) for protection on the way.If we travel by sea we would make a sacrifice to Nepune (God of sea).We trust people called soothsayers and augurs to tell us what Gods and Goddesses want and fortell the future by cutting open a dead animal and looking at its insides.Little statues of Gods and Goddesses are kept in a home to keep away evil spirits.The statues are put up high in the house to show how special the Gods and Goddesses are.

At the temples

At the temples their are statues of Gods people make sacrifices their and offer food,flowers and money.Emperors say that they are Gods too so we have to make extra sacrifices for them.Sometimes priests sacrifice a bull as part as the ceremony.

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