3344 07 Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome The Five Fs The Roman Empire From Augustus to the Fall of Rome

You might think of Rome as a grand city filled with shining marble and peopled with decadenttogaclad citizens. In reality, the city was a swampy, stinking, diseaseridden 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.