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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.85,0:00:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's March the 17th in A.D. 73.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.12,0:00:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're visiting ancient Rome\Nto watch the Liberalia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.31,0:00:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an annual festival that celebrates\Nthe liberty of Rome's citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.42,0:00:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking in at a 17-year-old\Nnamed Lucius Popidius Secundus.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.28,0:00:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not from a poor family, but he lives\Nin the region known as the Subura,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.14,0:00:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a poorer neighborhood in Rome,\Nyet close to the center of the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.57,0:00:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Gong)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.08,0:00:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tenants of these\Napartments are crammed in,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.55,0:00:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Grunting)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.57,0:00:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which poses considerable risk.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.85,0:01:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fires are frequent and the smell of ash\Nand smoke in the morning is not uncommon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.64,0:01:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucius, who awoke at dawn,\Nhas family duties to perform today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.77,0:01:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Cheering)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.81,0:01:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His 15-year-old brother is coming of age.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.30,0:01:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half the children in ancient Rome\Ndie before they reach adulthood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.84,0:01:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so this is a particularly\Nimportant milestone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.70,0:01:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucius watches his brother\Nstand in his new toga
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.99,0:01:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the household shrine\Nwith its protective deities,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.48,0:01:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he places his bulla,\Na protective amulet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.46,0:01:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the shrine with a prayer of thanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.74,0:01:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bulla had worked.\NIt had protected him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.12,0:01:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unlike many others,\Nhe had survived to become an adult.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.44,0:01:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At 17, Lucius has almost\Ncompleted his education.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.80,0:01:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has learned to speak well,\Nmake public speeches,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.06,0:01:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to read and write\Nboth Latin and Greek.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.09,0:01:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father has taught him\Nthe types of things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.90,0:02:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't learn in the classroom:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.41,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to run,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.17,0:02:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to swim,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.86,0:02:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.29,0:02:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucius could choose, at 17,\Nto become a military tribune
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.42,0:02:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and command soldiers\Non the edge of the Empire.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.07,0:02:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in other ways,\NLucius is still a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.03,0:02:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not trusted\Nto arrange business deals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.90,0:02:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father will take care\Nof that until he is 25.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.34,0:02:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Dad will arrange Lucius' marriage\Nto a girl 10 years younger.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.44,0:02:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His dad has his eye on a family\Nwith a 7-year-old daughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.68,0:02:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back to the Liberalia.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.25,0:02:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Lucius leaves with his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.43,0:02:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shops are open as the population\Ngoes about its business.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.59,0:02:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The streets are full\Nof itinerant traders selling trinkets
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.54,0:02:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people bustling from place to place.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.80,0:03:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Large wagons are not allowed\Nin the city until after the ninth hour
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.28,0:03:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the streets are still crowded.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.18,0:03:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fathers and uncles\Ntake the kids to the Forum Augustus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.35,0:03:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see statues of Rome's famous warriors
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.14,0:03:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Aeneas, who led Rome's ancestors,\Nthe Trojans, to Italy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.07,0:03:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Romulus, Rome's founder.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.95,0:03:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the great generals of the Republic\Nfrom more than 100 years earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.57,0:03:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lovingly, we can imagine\Nfathers and guardians
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.88,0:03:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their now adult children
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.47,0:03:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remembering stories of Rome's glory
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.69,0:03:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and re-telling the good deeds and sayings\Nof the great men of the past:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.36,0:03:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lessons on how to live well,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.71,0:03:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to overcome the follies of youth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.67,0:03:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a sense of history in this place,\Nrelevant to their present.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.35,0:03:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romans made an empire\Nwithout end in time and space.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.83,0:03:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Thump)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.86,0:04:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rome was destined to be\Neternal through warfare.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.77,0:04:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wars were a fact of life, even in A.D. 73.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.90,0:04:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are campaigns in the north\Nof England and into Scotland,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.02,0:04:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the north of the River\NDanube into Romania,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.70,0:04:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the frontier\Nbetween Syria and Iraq to the east.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.61,0:04:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's now the eighth hour --\Ntime to head for the baths.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.27,0:04:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucius and his family head up\Nthe Via Lata, the wide street,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.48,0:04:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Campus Martius,\Nand the enormous Baths of Agrippa.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.68,0:04:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The family members leave\Nthe clients and freedmen outside,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.43,0:04:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enter the baths with their peer group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.98,0:04:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Baths would change from dark,\Nsteamy rooms to light ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.15,0:04:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Romans had perfected window glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.77,0:04:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone moves from the cold room
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.34,0:04:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the tepid room
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.96,0:04:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to the very hot room.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.97,0:04:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Man) Oops!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.17,0:05:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than an hour later, the bathers leave
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.60,0:05:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,massaged, oiled,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.83,0:05:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Whistling)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.100,0:05:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have been scraped down with a strigil
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.76,0:05:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to remove the remaining dirt.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.07,0:05:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the ninth hour, seven hours\Nafter they left home,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.15,0:05:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the men return for a celebratory dinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.83,0:05:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dinner is an intimate affair,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.30,0:05:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with nine people\Nreclining around the low table.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.08,0:05:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slaves attend to their every need
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.45,0:05:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the diners, through gestures,\Ndemand more food and wine.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.68,0:05:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the day closes, we can hear\Nthe rumble of wagons outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.25,0:05:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The clients and freedmen,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.67,0:05:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a meal of robust\N-- if inferior -- food inside them,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.82,0:05:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shuffle off to the now tepid baths
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.05,0:05:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before returning\Nto their apartment blocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.45,0:05:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back at Lucius' house,\Nthe drinking continues into the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.37,0:05:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lucius and his stepbrother\Ndon't look too well.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.37,0:06:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A slave stands by in case\Neither of them needs to vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.05,0:06:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With hindsight, we know Lucius' future.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.93,0:06:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 20 years' time, the Emperor Vespasian's\Nyoungest son, Domitian, as emperor,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.37,0:06:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will enact a reign of terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.02,0:06:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will Lucius survive?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.26,0:06:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Drums)