The Roman Empire: From Augustus to the Fall of Rome

Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: The Five Fs (1x7)

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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.