Classical

Browse published pages on everyday life across the classical world, including civic routines, domestic labor, urban supply, slavery and dependency, craft work, and regional exchange.

Published locations

• Daily life in Antioch during the Roman Empire
• Daily life in Rome during the late Republic (2nd-1st century BCE)
• Daily life in Ostia during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Herculaneum before 79 CE
• Daily life in Puteoli during the 1st century CE
• Daily life in Augusta Emerita during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Aquileia during the 2nd-4th centuries CE
• Daily life in Ravenna during the 5th-6th centuries CE
• Daily life in Athens during the 5th century BCE
• Daily life in Corinth during the 1st century CE
• Daily life on Delos during the 2nd century BCE
• Daily life in Han Dynasty China (Western and Eastern Han, 202 BCE-220 CE)
• Daily life in Zhou China during the Spring and Autumn period
• Daily life in Western Han China (202 BCE-9 CE)
• Daily life in Eastern Han China (25-220 CE)
• Daily life in Yamato during the Kofun period
• Daily life in Gyeongju during the Silla period
• Daily life in Ujjain during the Gupta period
• Daily life in Madurai during the 1st-3rd centuries CE
• Daily life in Dunhuang during the 4th-6th centuries CE
• Daily life in Oxyrhynchus during the 2nd-3rd centuries CE
• Daily life in Canopus during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Naukratis during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
• Daily life in Carthage during the height of Punic power
• Daily life in Constantinople during the 6th century CE
• Daily life in Ephesus during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Smyrna during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Aphrodisias during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Laodicea on the Lycus during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Patara during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Pergamon during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
• Daily life in Nicomedia during the 3rd-4th centuries CE
• Daily life in Gerasa during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Sepphoris during the 2nd-3rd centuries CE
• Daily life in Baalbek-Heliopolis during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Bostra during the 2nd-3rd centuries CE
• Daily life in Edessa during the 2nd-3rd centuries CE
• Daily life in Apamea during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Hatra during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Thessalonica during the 2nd-4th centuries CE
• Daily life in Philippi during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Carnuntum during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Londinium during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life at Vindolanda during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Colonia Agrippina during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Mogontiacum during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Lugdunum during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Arelate during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Trier during the 3rd-4th centuries CE
• Daily life in Mediolanum during the 4th century CE
• Daily life in Tarraco during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Leptis Magna during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Volubilis during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Cuicul during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Sagalassos during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Paphos during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Tanais during the 2nd century CE
• Daily life in Olbia Pontica during the 1st-2nd centuries CE
• Daily life in Ctesiphon during the 3rd-6th centuries CE
• Daily life in Sparta during the 4th century BCE
• Daily life in Alexandria during the Ptolemaic period
• Daily life in Pataliputra during the Mauryan period
• Daily life in Persepolis during the Achaemenid period