HIST 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ludi Romani, Equites, Ludi
4 Jan 2020
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Social aspects of the roman city (part 1) Importance of dress (men with and without togas were separated) Foreign embassies: excluded from the front seats, if they included freedmen. 194 bc: senators segregated seats in the ludi romani. 26 bc: front rows reserved roe senators at all public spectacles. Women and those not wearing the toga (the pullati ) in the back rows. Amphitheatre: on the podium ( pulvinar ) in the front row. Reserved seats for senators and equites in the first rows. It seemed that men and women were not separated (in contrast to the theatre and amphitheatre) Front: vestal virgins (and sometimes the female members of the imperial family), and the president of the ludi. Orchestra: senators in individual seats ( subsella ) in the orchestra. Xiv ordines (first 14 rows of the cavea): Equites seniores (centre) and equites iuniores (laterals) Between the xiv ordines and the plebs: apparitores (official attendants of roman magistrates)
