Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,
wrote about some of the the realities of daily life in ancient Rome at dailymail.co.uk.This coincided with her BBC2 series, "Meet the Romans."
Then there was my favourite
lady, Allia Potestas, an ex-slave who was given one of the chattiest
tombstones of all — and who had one of the most curious domestic
set-ups.
She was the
centre of a menage a trois, living in domestic harmony with two men, one
of whom composed her extraordinary epitaph, spending a surprising
amount of time and tombstone space on her intimate features. How many
modern tombstones praise the nipples of the deceased or her
fastidiousness dealing with unwanted bodily hair?
Yet
the giveaway as to the ordinariness underlying this set-up is revealed
when he describes their daily routine. Of the three of them, it was
Allia who was always up first in the morning, and always the last to bed
at night. Presumably that was because she was trying to do the
housework and hold down a job. The same old story!
Yes, it is the same old story.
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