How did the Romans live? In the online course Culture, Beliefs and Life in Ancient Rome learn about life in Ancient Rome – its culture, beliefs, architecture, personalities, what people ate, how they dressed, and how society functioned.
What did Romans believe?
What did Romans eat?
How did Romans have fun?
How was life in Ancient Rome ?
How did Romans dress and comb their hair?
How did Roman society work?
What great personalities marked Ancient Rome?
How was life in Ancient Rome from birth to adult age?
Course language: English Also available in: Português | Español
Culture, Beliefs and Life in Ancient Rome

The Roman people have always fascinated us with the way they expanded, the gift for engineering, the polytheistic beliefs, the fun and the shows with death and the excesses at banquets. And we often wonder how it was really like life in Ancient Rome and in the Roman Empire.
This course intends to focus the study on this society of Classical Antiquity, approaching the culture, beliefs and life in Ancient Rome .
Who should take this certificated online course ?
How it works
Course structure – Culture, beliefs and life in Ancient Rome
1 – Culture, Leisure and Excesses
The Circus and the horse chariots races.
The Amphitheater and the combats.
The Baths.
The Banquets.

2 – Beliefs, Gods and Sacrifices
Graeco-Roman paganism.
The sacrifices.
The temples.
The gods (Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Minerva, Mars, Venus, Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Mercury, Ceres, Bacchus…).
3 – Food and Fashion in Ancient Rome
The Clothing.
The Hairstyle.
The Food and the Wine.
4 – Personalities who marked life in Ancient Rome
Caesar Augustus.
Caligula.
Nero.
5 – Important Events in Archaeology
The discovery of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
6 – Roman homes
The Insullae.
The Villae.
7 – Roman Life
- The birth
- The adoption
- Adult age
- Sexuality
- The slaves
- The streets of Ancient Rome
- Homosexuality
- Health and magic
- The roman calendar.
Author

Diana Ferreira
Graduate in Art History from the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Porto and Master in Museology (Spain: Valladolid).
Worked in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma and was part of the managing staff of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.
Studied and worked in Italy and Spain several times on scholarships. Trainer and head teacher for the subject on Art History in Porto, and Introduction to History of Art, Iconography and History of Architecture at the Academy of Art in Florence.
The book Guia dos Tesouros Arquitectónicos (Lisbon: Chiado Editores, 2014) was published in 2014, product of an in-depth investigation on the addressed topics.
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