Daily Life in Ancient Rome

The daily life in Ancient Rome was similar, and different different in many ways. The parents went to the market while the kids attended their school.


As some of us do, the Romans had breakfast in the morning, which was cheese, fruit, and wine. The meal after breakfast was what they called second breakfast. Second breakfast, for them is what we now call lunch, of course. The meal after second breakfast was dinner. However, the Romans throw the rest of the food left from dinner on the ground, which modern day people, hopefully, do not do.


Before the later days of Rome, a boy would stay at home and be tutored by his father. It was not until later that the Roman boys were sent to school by their fathers. The girls even able to go to school if their fathers permitted it. The children would go to a school from six to seven years old, and before becoming fourteen years of age, would have studied Latin and Greek. School would begin when the sun rose for the children.


While the children were at school their parents could have gone to the Forum, which was the marketplace for Rome. The Forum was used for many, many things. The adults would go there to get a few things done, such as shopping and banking.

The daily life in Ancient Rome was similar, and different different in many ways, to mast of our lives, they had three meals as we do and though we have that in common we don't handle everything in the meals as they do. The parents went to the market while the kids attended their school as well.