CLAS 21405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Portico, Ill Repute, Macellum
15 Sep 2017
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Rome is located: the city itself is on the bay of naples, one of the most fertile parts of italy and also one of the most densely populated. J: ust up the coast on the other side of vesuvius is the city of naples, one of the largest cities in ancient and modern italy. Baiae, an ancient resort town for the rich and famous, and misenum, the base of one of the two fleets of the roman empire. It was founded very early on by a mountain people called the oscans during rome"s early republican period: the city then changed hands on several occasions. In the first century bc, when most of italy rose up against rome in a quest to win full roman citizenship, pompeii joined the rebellion and even refused to accept the peace when the. Romans agreed to give them citizenship and most of the rest of italy had accepted.
