Augustus: The First Emperor
Season 1
Ep 7. Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: The Five Fs
- January 4, 2019
- 30 min
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