• Political system in Pompeii and Herculaneum

• Political bodies

• Women and politics

• Voting

- Amphitheatre

- Forum

• A real contest

• Bibliography

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Engraved on the entrance on the Amphitheatre in Pompeii

Twenty pairs of gladiators provided by Quintus Monnius Rufus are to fight at Nola May First, Second, and Third, and there will be a hunt.

The gladiatorial troop of the Aedile Aulius Suettius Certus will fight at Pompeii May 31. There will be a hunt, and awnings will be provided.

The Aedile

http://www.classzone.com/books/wh_05_shared/pdf/WHS05_06_166_PS.pdf

http://www.classzone.com/books/wh_05_shared/pdf/WHS05_06_166_PS.pdf

An inscriptions written by a Aedile on the walls of Pompeii

An inscriptions written by a Aedile on the walls of Pompeii

Hall of the Aedile

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The Duumviri

Office of the Duumvirs

The forum at Pompeii

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“During the year of their office the Duumviri wore the purple bordered toga, the toga praetexta”.

Stated by Brian Brennan

http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/genius.jpg

http://arcanehistory.com/?p=56

THE TOGA

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/clothing.html

A fresco from Pompeii of a Duumvir wearing a toga

The Duumviri

The Duumviri Quinquennale

Thirty pairs of gladiators provided by Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius quinquennial duumvir, together with their substitutes, will fight at Pompeii on November 24, 25, 26. There will be a hunt. Hurrah for Maius the Quinquennial! Bravo, Paris!

Inscripted on the walls of Pompeii by Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius quinquennial duumvir.

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html

The Priesthood

Twenty pairs of gladiators furnished by Decimus Lucretius Satrius Valens perpetual priest of Nero, son of the Emperor, and ten pairs of gladiators furnished by Decimus Lucretius Valens his son, will fight at Pompeii April 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. There will be a big hunt and awnings. Aemilius Celer wrote this by the light of the moon.

Inscripted on a wall of Pompeii by the priest Decimus Lucretius Satrius Valens

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html

The Populus(citizens/voters)

The inhabitants of the Campanian suburb ask for the election of Marcus Epidius Sabinus as aedile.

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html

Inscripted on a wall in Pompeii by a voter

Women and politics

Eumachia

Eumachia’s office in the Forum of Pompeii

http://www.indiana.edu/~leach/c414/net_id/pompeii/forum/eumachia.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Eumachia.jpg

Statue of Eumachia

Euamachia

http://catholic-resources.org/AncientRome/pomp13-4.jpg

Entrance to the Building of Eumachia(on the East side of the Forum of Pompeii)

Women and politics

Mamia

http://catholic-resources.org/AncientRome/pomp13-10.jpg

Tomb of Mamia, a priestess,West of Pompeii

Women and politics

Political graffiti

Translation"Asellina and her girls

urge you to vote for Gaius Lollius Fuscus for Minister of Public

Affairs"

http://www.fusiafuscafamily.com/family_history1.htm

Asellina ran an entertainment house in Pompeii. This was written on the outside wall of her establishment in Pompeii 79A.D.

Women

Frescoes from Pompeii

http://thriceholy.net/JPGs/woman.jpg http://thriceholy.net/womenf.html

"What notes, what love letters, though,There'd be to read if you opened the desk of your jealous whore!" (Juvenal, Satires, VI Why Marry?, 276-277)

“But why is Censennia the best of wives, as her husband swears? Her dowry was in the millions; at a price so right, he declares Her chaste...In turn, For her it bought liberty. She may flirt before his eyes And write love letters; the wealthy wife of a man who sighs For nothing but money is really unmarried in any case.” (Juvenal, Satires, VI Why Marry?, 136-141).

http://thriceholy.net/womenf.html

http://thriceholy.net/womenf.html

Women: Love letters

Voting

The dyers request the election of Postumius Proculus as Aedile

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html

Make Lucius Caeserninus quinquennial duumvir of Nuceria, I beg you: he is a good man.

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html

Inscriptions written on the walls of Pompeii by voters

Amphitheatre

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Forum

http://www.igougo.com/journal-j2452-Pompeii-Pompeii-_Echoes_from_the_past.html#ReviewID:1145688

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Floor plan of the forum in Pompeii

Inside of the forum

Competition

Spectator violence in the Amphitheatre-AD59

• Tacitus tells ;” …there arose from a trifling beginning a terrible bloodbath among the inhabitants of the colonies of Nuceria and Pompeii at a gladiatorial show…Intertown rivalry led to abuse, then stone throwing, then the drawings of weapons. The Pompeians, in whose town the show was being given came off the better. Therefore many of the Nucerians were carried to Rome, having lost limbs, and many were bereaved of parents and children. The Emporer instructed the Senate to investigate; they passed it to the Consuls. When their findings returned to the Senators, the Pompeians were barred from holding any gatherings for ten years.”Annuls 14.17

www.mrsgraham.net/Cities%20of%20Vesuvius-Pompeii%20and%20Herculaneum.ppt

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