CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Novus Homo, Sestertius, Roman Senate

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

Document Summary

There was no city planning in rome so streets were dysfunctional; buildings built in a mishmash. Had a population of 750 000 1 million (only surpassed by london in 1800: 730 people/ha; noisy, smelly; crime, air pollution. Most romans only had 1 name unless you were an aristocrat (male) or someone of importance (3 names) Praenomen (first name) only allowed to pick a first name from a certain list; only written as abbreviations: nomen (family name) Cognomen (part of the family name but originally it was used as characteristic to describe a person: other cognomen are known as agnomen. If a full name is needed for legal purposes, the following are also added: affiliation (who your father/grandfather was); voting tribe (37 of them) Women used to have praenomens but they stopped being used so they used the feminine version of the family name (julius > julia) for all daughters and then numbered them accordingly.