🧑🔧 Professions and Daily Life
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Typical professions in ancient Rome were:
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- Craftsmen: smiths, bakers, potters, builders
- Dealers: traded grains, fabrics, pottery at markets
- Teachers: grammaticus or rhetor taught wealthy children
- Servants and slaves: indispensable for wealthy households
- Farmers: provided food in the countryside
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The poor often worked hard and long days, while wealthy Romans enjoyed meetings, theater visits, and baths. A senator did not need to work but shaped political events in the city.
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Anecdote: The famous baker Eutychus earned a small fortune and became famous throughout Rome thanks to a creative bread range with laurel leaves on the loaf!
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