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What was the daily routine for romans after sunset? From our modern 21-st century point of view they would lengthen their day by putting lights on when daylight shortened, so they could have the same acivity routine in every period of the year, with different activities depending on the season. We recognize the purpose of e.g. oil lamps and fire-places found in every part of the ancient world as how we use electricity in our time. Never thought of any other sleeping- and activity patterns, untill I came across this article explaining how regular sleeping patterns were in pre-electricity era: People slept for about four hours, got up for a few hours en then went back to sleep again for four hours. So called "first- and second sleep". "Imagine you are a citizen of the 18th century. It