CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Roman Citizenship, Roman Senate, Hectare

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Rome at a population of about 750,000-1,000,000 people, which was unheard of as no city had ever surpassed 1,000,000 inhabitants until london in the 1800s (and london was much larger). Given its size, rome was probably one of the most densely populated cities in history, holding 730 people per hectare. It was noisy, smelly, and crowded a cess pit of humanity. It was a complete mess of streets and buildings. Romans always wrote in capital letters: capital u = v. When they began translating greek words, the romans began to add letters to their alphabet. Germanic names began to emerge as well w sounded like v . The u , v , w , and y" were all the same letter u . The j and v were medieval developments, serving as consonantal forms of i and. For men: most ordinary romans only had one name their first.