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[Seamas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWQvdZdaAA

This is what your middle-class Roman apartment would have looked like.  Not so different.

[Rilder]

That looks nicer then the house I'm living in, can I move there?

[Neruz]

There is a very good reason why the Romans get so much attention for being generally amazing.

[Footkerchief]

As a huge classics nerd I find this really awesome, so thanks for the link.

[darkflagrance]

But would the doors really have looked like that?

Bear in mind the streets would also likely have been filthy if this was located in a busy city.

[Heron TSG]

Yeah, the Romans had apartments and steam engines. If they hadn't gotten so fat and lazy, we could be driving hovercars!

[Hungry]

Actually it was belived that steam power was well know by roman scolars but far under weighed the avalibility and low price of slaves in ancient Rome.

So even if they were not lazy, and they were very, they would rather use slaves over technologies, and we remain driving normal cars.

Also you cant argue at their hygiene, back then clean wasnt connected to healthiness...due to lack of technologies.

[r3d5kull]

Yeah, the Romans had apartments and steam engines. If they hadn't gotten so fat and lazy, we could be driving hovercars!

Don't blame them blame the romans just blame the Jews... them and there Jew gold... Is it sad that I am Jewish?

[Ampersand]

I'm not sure the Romans were generally aware of steam power. As far as I know, the only awareness of it in the classical period was confined to a few dusty books written by old Greek cranks in the Library of Alexandria. Yes, it was a Roman province, eventually, but the government of Rome due to, well, the lack of steam power (IE, fast transportation) was fairly decentralized, and knowledge of things that were at the time little more than idle amusements did not seem important enough to distribute.

The problem was not the lack of knowledge, per se, but the lack of understanding how to develop practical applications for the knowledge. It's one thing to build a spinning ball powered by steam jets. It's another to make it rotate the wheels of a vehicle.

[Il Palazzo]

Also you cant argue at their hygiene, back then clean wasnt connected to healthiness...due to lack of technologies.

I call this BS. After wikipedia:

Regular bathing was a hallmark of Roman civilization. Elaborate baths were constructed in urban areas to serve the public, who typically demanded the infrastructure to maintain personal cleanliness. The complexes usually consisted of large, swimming pool-like baths, smaller cold and hot pools, saunas, and spa-like facilities where individuals could be depilated, oiled, and massaged. Water was constantly changed by an aqueduct-fed flow. Bathing outside of urban centers involved smaller, less elaborate bathing facilities, or simply the use of clean bodies of water. Roman cities also had large sewers, such as Rome's Cloaca Maxima, into which public and private latrines drained. Romans didn't have demand-flush toilets but did have some toilets with a continuous flow of water under them. (Similar toilets are seen in Acre Prison in the film Exodus.)

[Cthulhu]

Hey look, it has one of those wooden shelf-things on the outside wall like in Assassin's Creed.  I always assumed those were just for Altair to jump on.

[Jude]

Also you cant argue at their hygiene, back then clean wasnt connected to healthiness...due to lack of technologies.

You're thinking of medieval and early modern times in Europe. Plenty of ancient cultures realized cleanliness was important

[Heron TSG]

Also, steam engines were mainly just toys.

Emperor Hadrian had a little pinwheel that was found. It was powered by a steam jet.

Steampunk pinwheel? Better than it sounds!

[Jackrabbit]

Pederasty* aside, Rome looks like a pleasant place to live, providing you were at least middle-class.

*That was the Romans, right?

[Aqizzar]

What's the inside of the apartment look like?  From the outside it looks like Italy today with more carts and fewer Vespas.

Hey look, it has one of those wooden shelf-things on the outside wall like in Assassin's Creed.  I always assumed those were just for Altair to jump on.

I thought they were Bronze Age window units.