Hello, welcome to part two, corpses. Let's just crack on. Okay, so today I'm going to talk to you about corpses in ancient Rome, which is kind of fascinating.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk to you about corpses in ancient Rome, which is kind of fascinating subject just because it's full of

the usual bonkers stuff that you'd associate with that period so to start with I

think it's worth saying that Romans had a complex relationship with death.

When an individual died, a code of rich on tradition kicked in,

which imposed certain expectations on the surviving family,

although poorer Romans made much less of a fuss of the dead than rich ones did.

Okay? So funerals of poorer Romans usually took place within about 24 hours with

cremation the method of choice. That's very quick. It is quite quick isn't it? Yeah 24 hours. I don't

if you've ever been involved in arranging a funeral or anything like that there's a lot of

admin. Yeah and it seems to be taking longer these days.

Yes, there is. There's a lot of stuff that's involved. It's something that I've experienced.

Also informing people of the death, these sort of these things that you go

through. If it's 24 hours you're just kind of going right you got to be here

tomorrow quit yeah exactly yeah exactly yeah you limit the. You send out one tweet, you say 3 PM.

Tom, everyone. Tom's dead and we'll be throwing him in the Thames at four o'clock tomorrow.

Oh what a time, full timers and subscribers get to a tender feel.

Get a throw a match on the pire.

However, this 24-hour quick shot deal was not the case for wealthy Romans.

And this is what I'm really going to talk to you about. Okay? For wealthy Romans the demands of death were huge and I want to get your take on each of these.

First of all there was a nine day morning period after the moment of death.

Not enough.

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