Andrea Alvares

Professor Hanh

Classics 80B

March 2, 2012

Ancient Rome Entertainment

            Julia woke up today to a beautiful Saturday morning ready to have some fun with her friends. She doesn’t usually go out because her parents say she is still too young to be out. If she does go out she has a curfew to meet. If she doesn’t obey the rules, her mother, Pompeia will be mad and her father Julius Cesar will forbid her from going out on future weekends. Julia bathed on her very luxurious tub and after that she put on her best stola. She then went out down the Palentine Hill to meet with her friends that were already waiting for her to go to the chariot races.

            Julia enjoyed going to the chariot races, either with her friends or with her parents. She mostly went with her friends because her parents were always busy taking care of military businesses. Julia and her friends were heading to Circus Maximus to go see the chariot races. These races were really dangerous for the one’s participating in it. These chariot races start first with a religious ritual. After this, the participants will enter the arena to present themselves. Julia enjoyed looking at the participants; some of them were very handsome, but her heart belongs to only one person, Aulus.

            The chariot races were very intense, lots of injuries occurred and Julia was shocked at everything she was seeing. The participants were almost risking their lives to dead because the horses could have killed them. After the chariot race, Julia still had time to spend with her friends before going back home. They decided to go to a theatrical event, one of Plautus comedy plays. Plautus’ plays were one of the best surviving works people could enjoy. Julia needed a good laugh because at home she didn’t have that much joy. She enjoyed Plautus’ play very well performed by the actors who put it together. The sun was setting down which meant that Julia had to head back home to her parents. She enjoyed this day very much, getting away from all the problems that were occurring back at her home.