CLAS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Traffic Calming, Toga
12 Nov 2018
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There were pedestrian areas, one way streets, traffic calming, roadworkers, loiterers and litter. Historians said that the roman cities were very dirty. There were cracked or leaky vessels that were tossed out of the windows. Vespsaian said that he was sitting one day having breakfast when a dog brought him a human hand that was picked up from one of the roads. The streets were filled with stray dogs, excrement dropped out of chamber pots and human body parts. Vespasian neglected the cleaning of the streets and the emperor caligula covered him in mud and dressed him in a toga. Horses, asses and mules were the main means of transport. Pompeiians lived in a single room above their shops with not adequate bathrooms but they never peed on the streets. Even when it wasn"t raining, the aqueduct poured onto the roadways from street fountains. Most people would have spent a lot of time on city streets.
