Quote Originally Posted by seienchin View Post
Anyway my personal opinion is just that we cant know anything about that time. Sad but true The facts you can know(Like buildings etc) are presented very well in rome.
As a historian I have to say we cannot know anything about any time period, not even our own. That is the extreme post-modern view. However, we can use the sources we have, and Antiquity is much better documented than my specialisation, Denmark Iron Age to 1250-ish, which is why we historians always- ALWAYS!!! apply a generous dose of source criticism in order to make a good estimate of what happened.

Everyday life seems to me quite well represented in Rome I agree.