Ohhhhh you’re talking fantasy like TV shows where characters have apartments right above/very close to useful social centers, like bars or restaurants.
Cool to think upper class was like sitcom living for Roman’s.
Correct, though with the addendum that having a kitchen pretty invariably also meant having a chef (or at least a dual-use servant-chef), and that the rich were constantly eating at each other’s houses and critiquing each other’s food.
Yep! There was a social aspect to this - client-patron relationships were very prominent in Rome; as such, those shop fronts were often rented out to one’s clients, rather than just the highest bidder. Depending on individual wealth, prominence, personal inclination, etc, this could be as distant and impersonal as one’s political supporters (“Vote for me, filthy poor, and I’ll let you in on prestigious opportunities”), or as close as an aristocrat’s family friend (“Dear Gaius’s grandfather saved my grandfather back in The Day, he’s a good fellow and we try to help him”).
Wait, so fancy roman homes had like knick knack shops and shit built in the front of them?
Mixed use zoning.
Reject Modernity: Abandon your home in an isolated residential development/neighborhood.
Return to Tradition: Embrace functional urbanism.
Ohhhhh you’re talking fantasy like TV shows where characters have apartments right above/very close to useful social centers, like bars or restaurants.
Cool to think upper class was like sitcom living for Roman’s.
Lol I love how that’s just how a lot of people live nowadays in Europe. America is wild.
Aaaaand: Having a kitchen was considered upper class, eating out was for the lowers, if I remember correctly.
Correct, though with the addendum that having a kitchen pretty invariably also meant having a chef (or at least a dual-use servant-chef), and that the rich were constantly eating at each other’s houses and critiquing each other’s food.
The Sparticus TV show I liked did NOT imply eating out was for lower classes.
Frfr
/horny
Yep! There was a social aspect to this - client-patron relationships were very prominent in Rome; as such, those shop fronts were often rented out to one’s clients, rather than just the highest bidder. Depending on individual wealth, prominence, personal inclination, etc, this could be as distant and impersonal as one’s political supporters (“Vote for me, filthy poor, and I’ll let you in on prestigious opportunities”), or as close as an aristocrat’s family friend (“Dear Gaius’s grandfather saved my grandfather back in The Day, he’s a good fellow and we try to help him”).