CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Toga, Petasos, 18 Months

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

January 15, 2015: rome was a complete mess of streets, jam packed with people, 1st century rome had approx 750,000-1m pop. Western world until london in 1800s: small city with very high density (730ppl per hectare). Crowded, loud, smelly, gross, dead bodies all around: romans usually have 2 names. Only vips had 3+ names: women don"t have given names. Just feminine version of family name: rome is very class based. 3 factors determine your place in society: 1. Citizenship, are you a roman citizen or not. (children, women, slaves, foreigners aren"t citizens: 2. Freedom, you"re either a slave, free-man (once a slave) or free-born: 3. Wealth, do you have money or not: originally split into 2 classes: patricians and plebeians (plebs, patricians= the 1%. Men who had money did their mandatory military service in the cavalry because horses showed wealth. This group of people were referred to as.