Inside a Roman home
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Domitian's Multisensory Experience Puts Rome's Elites on the Back Foot
The only sounds are coming from domitian who is talking on the subject of death. The food being served is funerary food. These diners didn't know whether they were going to leave the meal alive, or leave the meal being carted out dead. What can this tell us about how important social status was to roman contemporaries?
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