Creative Pompeii Slave Assignment

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Its early morning and I'm getting up from my tiny bed in the storage room by the kitchen. It is a beautiful summer day in Pompeii but as I am an ancillia I must go help my mistress prepare for the day and then carry on with my household duties. I must quickly dress into my dirty and used stola and get to my mistress’ chamber before she has to wait on me and be angered. I run down the hallway and see my mistress Germana Aemlia Domitius waiting impatiently. When I get to her she curses at me for being late and orders me to lay out her garments while she went to wake her son Martinus Caecilius Domitius. So I entered her room and placed her bright orange tunic, stola and red palla onto the bed and waited for her return. As soon as she entered the room I started dressing her without a word, I did not want to test her anger any further. My mistress is usually kind but she is angered often, it doesn’t matter who she is upset with, she will express her rage on who is closest. That is usually me. I gently paint her face white and her lips a bright red, I add a dark purple eyelid color on her. I place her wig on her head and start making elaborate shapes out of the hair. Lastly she puts on the jewellery she had chosen out for the day on and dismisses me to finish the rest of my chores. I return to the kitchen to oversee if the next meal is being prepared, I see that it is and leave to the atrium to inspect the cleanliness. There is a bit of dirt that I clean up. After my mistress orders me to go make all the beds. I start with her and my master’s sleeping chamber. I take my time making their bed perfect because otherwise they get upset and I am left without food for the day. Then I move on to Martinus’ chamber. I knock before I enter because the first time I ever fixed his bed he was in the room and the mistress saw this while overlooking my duties and punished me. There is

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