Empire-capital spectacle coexisting with ordinary homes, street commerce and unequal social status. Explore the tangible atmosphere of this setting: Fora, insulae, baths, temples, amphitheatres. Togas, tunics, stolae, military and working dress. Social experience: Citizens, freed people, enslaved labour and imperial politics. Everyday life: Shopping, cooking, bathing, lodging and crafts. Cultural life: Public games, religious ritual and banquets. Editorial limits: Imperial Rome should not be equated with the end of the Republic.
A concise first immersion in the material culture and everyday spaces of this place and time.
Place and time: Rome, Roman Empire · 14–100 CE. Look for: Fora, insulae, baths, temples, amphitheatres. Togas, tunics, stolae, military and working dress. Shopping, cooking, bathing, lodging and crafts. This is an atmosphere-led guide, not a reconstruction of actual events. Imperial Rome should not be equated with the end of the Republic.
79
STORIA RAPPRESENTATA 79
Pompeii: The Last Day: Reconstructed town spaces, daily material life and the AD 79 disaster.
Markets, housing, trade, movement around the city. Editorial limitation: Reconstructed town spaces, daily material life and the AD 79 disaster.
64
STORIA RAPPRESENTATA 64
Quo Vadis: Roman domestic, religious and social spectacle under Nero, reconstructed in a Hollywood idiom.
Household labour, status and gender. Editorial limitation: Roman domestic, religious and social spectacle under Nero, reconstructed in a Hollywood idiom.
24 p.n.e. → 54
STORIA RAPPRESENTATA 24 p.n.e. → 54
I, Claudius: Imperial household, political ritual and hierarchy; studio sets limit street immersion.
Religion, civic procession and court protocol. Editorial limitation: Imperial household, political ritual and hierarchy; studio sets limit street immersion.