Running the Roman Home
Publisher: History Press Limited, The
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780752465173
Subjects: Home economics; Rome, social life and customs
Description: "The Running of the Roman Household explores the real 'every-day' life of the Romans and the effort required to run a Roman household. It considers the three elements of housework - supply, maintenance and disposal. It is divided into sections on how the Romans collected water and fuel, milled flour and produced thread; how they cleaned the house, illuminated it, did the washing up, cleaned their clothes, got rid of waste water and sewage, and threw out their rubbish. The evidence is taken from literary, archaeological and artistic sources, and often compared to historical or modern parallels from communities using the same methods."--Wheelers.co.nz.