Subura
Subura (also Suburra ) was the name of a neighborhood in Rome in antiquity that was known or notorious as a residential area for the poor and as a red light district . But Gaius Iulius Caesar also lived there until he was elected Pontifex Maximus at the age of 37 . The living conditions in the Subura were sometimes very cramped, as evidenced by numerous mentions e.g. B. in Juvenal and Martial . One of the four urban tribes was named after the Subura .
According to the Augustan division, the Subura belonged to the fourth region of the city. It lay between the hills Quirinal , Cispius , Viminal and Esquilin (on today's city map about halfway between Stazione Termini and Colosseum ). The clivus Suburanus (roughly equivalent to today's Via in Selci ) ran through the Subura as a connecting road between the Argiletum and the Porta Esquilina in the Servian city wall.
Every year on October 15, the inhabitants of the Subura fought a cultic contest with the residents of the Via Sacra , known as the " October horse " (equus October) .
literature
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 214-215.
- Rudolf Groß: Subura. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 405 f.
- Subura . In: Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Oxford University Press, London 1929, pp. 500-501 ( online ).
Remarks
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 48 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 48 ″ E