CLST 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gaius Gracchus, Basilica Julia, Lex Julia
21 Mar 2017
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The audience as society who sits where. If you were a citizen, no matter if you were poor or wealthy, you had the right to wear a toga. The richer you were, the whiter it was! You could see what class somebody was in by what kind of toga they were wearing. Slaves = no togas, just a small tunic. Married women = particular kind of outfit, that she wore a stola kind of a slip that she wore over top, that was belted you could tell a woman was married by what she was wearing. Restrictions on how elaborately you could dress. Ex-slave women could not wear pearls, for example. All of the people running for political office, or upper class, They were the only ones who had the time, and money, to run for office. 194 bce: ludi romani segregated seating for senators. 67 bce: lex roscia introduced by otho roscius. Special seating for equestians 14 rows.
