CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plebs, Straight Edge, Sestertius
23 Jan 2016
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Come is a complete mess of streets and jam packed with buildings. For the most part, thinking of first century ad early republic. Population between 750 000 1 million ppl at this time. You do not get another city in western history until london. Given small area, one of the most densely populated cities in world history 730 ppl/hectare (remember this: looking at bombay 452; calcutta 295; mexico 224. Kong, bombay, calcutta where there are spot densities between 1000 and. Rome is noisy, smelly, crowded, disgusting, ppl in the streets, dead bodies all around. There was traffic, crimenot a place where you really wanted to visit. Were circuses, theaters, spiral columnsbasins for navel battles. Apartments 45 300: almost 2000 houses. Know things on page 12 in booklet (don"t know tribes, abbreviations in latin). Romans normally have 2 names and higher up romans have 3 names (middle name is the family name: first name prime omen.
