Social structure

Question 1

Men (populus)

Answer 1

• Full legal rights
• Could hold political office
• Could be members of town council
• Controlled public finances, spaces and religion
• Priviledged seats in amphitheatre and theatre
• Expectation to participate in society/politics
• Senatorial elite (leaders from rome) e.g Marcus Balbus (10 statues in H)
• Local elite (wealthy landowners/traders)

Question 2

Women (populus)

Answer 2

• Could not hold formal political office
• Under legal control of fathers of husbands
• Could own property
• Conducted businesses
• Constructed buildings and tombs
• Held priesthoods
• Julia Felix (local elite) independant wealthy woman

Question 3

Freedmen (liberth)

Answer 3

• Freedmen could become wealthy and bought their own slaves e.g. wax tablet shows that Freedwoman Poppaea Note has slaves of her own

Men:

• Voted in elections
• Own business
• Could not hold formal political office

Women:

• Own businesses
• Participate in Commerce
• Could nothold formal political office
• Some worked for former masters

Question 4

Slaves

Answer 4

• 40% population on Pompeii - vital
• Little evidence of their lives
• Slave quaters within main house, few had seperate
• Sold in business transcations on wax tablets
• Manumission was common = freed, or purchase freedom
• Ex slaves could not be citizens, kids could