This study aims to investigate "leisure", which was one of the main driving social forces in the Roman society, in spatial terms with reference to Roman domestic architecture. Every stratum of the Roman society enjoyed the possibilities and pleasures of leisure proportional to its hierarchy in the social system, so that leisure can be investigated in both public and private contexts in the Roman world.
The Roman society was highly stratified and comprised of diverse social classes for which leisure acquired different forms and meanings. The ancient conception and forms of leisure were quite different from the modern ones, which came into discussion during the industrial era. Leisure is most basically defined as "the time free from work".
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