In the online course “Culture, beliefs and life in Ancient Rome ” you will learn how the romans actually lived.
Discover how the Romans lived!
What did they believe?
What did they eat?
How did they have fun?
Where did they live?
How did they 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?
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.
This course intends to focus the study on this society of Classical Antiquity, approaching the culture, beliefs and life in Ancient Rome .
Overview
Language – English
Also available in – Português
Includes 24-hour lifetime access for an unlimited time to:
- Lessons for each theme of the program
- Evaluation (1 final questionnaire)
- Certificate.
Who should take this online course ?
How it works
Course structure
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
The Clothing
The Hairstyle
The Food and the Wine
4 – Personalities who marked 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 Rome
- Homosexuality
- Health and magic
- The roman calendar
Author

Diana Ferreira
Licenciada en Historia del Arte por la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Porto y Maestra en Museología en España (Valladolid). Trabajó en la Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna de Roma y en la dirección de la Galleria de los Uffizi, en Florencia. Con becas de investigación para proyectos en Italia e España, fue formadora y profesora responsable de la disciplina de Historia del Arte en Oporto e de Introducción al Historia del Arte, Iconografía e Historia de la Arquitectura en la Academia de Artes de Florencia.
En 2014 publicó el libro Guía de los Tesoros Arquitectónicos. Lisboa, Chiado Editora, 2014, fruto de una investigación en profundidad sobre los temas mencionados.