CLAS 151gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Utility, Coffer, Exedra
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Non-romans from the roman provinces are also in rome. Equestrian class gains importance - increasing responsibiliies in running rome"s infrastructure, collecing taxes. Plebeians - poor farmers in the countryside, urban poor o o o o o o. Standard wage for an employed manual laborer: 1 denarius = 4 sesterces. 4 sesterces - the survival wage for a family of husband, wife, 2 children (half rent, half food) Cheapest housing: at the top of an apartment block (would die irst in case of ire, most dangerous if the building collapses) Freedmen - all the rights of roman ciizenship, but cannot run for oice. Children will be able to run for oice. 58 bc: clodius passes bill of the grain dole, free grain for qualiied urban poor o o. Collegia - banding together to save up money. Circus maximus - 250,000 capacity according to pliny (but numbers were sketch back then?) Isis - egypian goddess of life, nature, the universe.
