What was life like for the average member of the Roman empire? What did they eat, how did they pass the time...

What was life like for the average member of the Roman empire? What did they eat, how did they pass the time? What did the typical house look like?

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Generally miserable

Most Romans were slaves

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the majority of the population were plebeian farmers

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They enjoyed a standard of sanitation unmatched until the industrial revolution; this involves public baths with steam being vented into rooms, sewers going under city streets, aqueducts providing public access to clean water for the cities, and all sorts of community events that would provide food and entertainment for even the lowest of plebs. The patricians enjoyed a lifestyle not unlike a 21st century one, with a varied diet taken from all over the known world, exotic markets flooding with goods from every corner of the empire and beyond, people of every type interacting under a universal language and every comfort and need you could imagine before the age of electricity. Any sort of entertainment you could ever want could be purchased, much like the internet if you had money, you got what you wanted.
The plebs lived much like bums and drifted from event to event looking for handouts. The concept of a “patron” comes from the idea of rich patricians basically funding people’s livelihoods and getting their services as a mob in return. Most people would quite literally be hired thugs that would come to their patron every morning for bread and wine and then do whatever it was the patrician needed that day. You could be a construction worker one day, voting for what the patrician wants in an election, providing protection against the opposing mob during public events, or just protecting their property or even killing or extorting others. Anything the patron wanted, the plebs did in exchange for bread and wine. Public life as a patrician required that you have a mob with you pretty much at all times, otherwise your rival’s mob could easily kill you and that would be that. Politics was a violent business and just being in the mob was your job for most people. Being a bum was accepted in Roman society and even normalized. Direct appeals to this mob from private citizens is what eventually brought the republic down.