You find yourself in true peace as rain falls on ancient Rome | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads cover art

You find yourself in true peace as rain falls on ancient Rome | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

You find yourself in true peace as rain falls on ancient Rome | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

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Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and dry in a Roman house on the Caelian hill, almost two thousand years ago, on a soft autumn night of rain. Rain falls through the open roof into the marble pool in the hall, exactly the way the house was built to receive it, oil lamps burn low, and the whole city hums itself to sleep. You have a warm cup, a quiet room, and a bed with a warm brick at your feet.

You will hear steady rain on the roof tiles, water falling softly into the impluvium pool, oil lamps guttering, and far away, the night sounds of the greatest city in the world going to sleep.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 32 minute mark, and then the rain and the pool carry on in the dark until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
2:50 The Street in the Rain
6:07 The Door in the Wall
10:59 The Lamps and the Shrine
14:30 Supper
17:21 The Garden Court
19:32 The City at Night
23:25 The Bedroom
26:15 The House Settles
29:39 Drifting
32:50 Rain until morning

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

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Sources: Mary Beard, SPQR and Pompeii; Alberto Angela, A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome; Juvenal, Satire 3; Frontinus, On the Aqueducts of Rome.

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