Ancient Rome during the heyday of the empire is much more similar to a modern metropolis than we might think. One and a half million of its inhabitants faced the same problems as their heirs two thousand years later: the high cost of housing and traffic jams, the influx of immigrants and the need to “grease up” city officials... The author invites us to “cover ourselves with an invisibility hat” and spend the whole day in Rome , from dawn to dusk, in 115 AD: hang out on a crowded street and look into the Colosseum, attend a court hearing and luxurious baths, taste gourmet dishes and enjoy conversation at a dinner party. And end the day on a love bed - here, too, nothing has changed in two thousand years.