Roman Family Life

What Romans cooked and wore depended on whether they were rich or poor. Rich Romans lived a very good life. Roman slaves and people without a lot of money had to work all the time and had very difficult lives.
For Romans, family was the one of the most vital thing. It didn’t matter how big or small their family was, they always lived altogether. The family included all unmarried sons and daughters, as well as married sons and their wives. The family was ruled by the paterfamilias. This was always the oldest male in the family. The paterfamilias was also responsible for teaching all the younger males both academics and trades, but also how to act in society. Under the kingdom, women had no rights. A woman's role was to teach her daughters how …show more content…
Most ate a light breakfast, and a snack at mid-day - perhaps bread and cheese, or boiled eggs and salad. They would then have a huge dinner. Dinner was a main event starting in the afternoon. They would lie on their sides on a couch and be served by the servants. The Romans ate with their hands and would wash their hands often during diner. According to the thoughtco, typical food would have been bread. beans, fish, vegetables, cheese, and dried fruit. They ate little meat. There were variety of food in fancy sauces for the rich. How the food looked was just as necessary as the taste. Some of the food they ate would seem very strange to us.
Most of the clothing worn in Ancient Rome was made of wool which the women spun. However, the salves spun the clothes for the wealthier people. The wealthier people could buy any types of clothes like rare materials such as linen from Egypt, cotton from India and silk from China. Wool was made throughout Italy and much of the Roman Empire both in the house and commercially. The Romans became the first major society to wear seasonal clothing (The mirror of History). Washing these clothes was hard because romans did not have a washing machine like