During the height of the empire, Ancient Rome surprisingly resembles modern megacities. Residents—about one and a half million of them—faced problems familiar today: high housing costs, constant traffic jams, a significant flow of immigrants, and the need to pay bribes to officials. The author invites you to “disappear” mentally and spend a day in Rome of the year 115 CE, starting from morning until late evening: strolling through crowded streets, visiting the Colosseum, dropping in on court proceedings and enjoying luxurious bathhouses, trying delicacies and savoring conversations at a dinner party. The day ends in the arms of a loved one, because in that sphere, over the course of two thousand years, not much has changed.