Banning Crying At Funerals
A regular funeral in Ancient Rome often began with the procession. People used to walk alongside the deceased body through the streets of the city and openly wept while they were at it. Back then, the number of people mourning during the procession acted as a sort of final status symbol. A lot wanted to impress their attendees and even asked family members to pay for mourners to join the legitimate grievers. Apparently, some of these women actors got so involved in the role that they scratched their faces and ripped out their hair. That sounds intense, though they later tried to outlaw this by banning crying at funerals.
Banning Crying At Funerals
Lower Income Inequality Than In Present-Day America
Historians have talked about how evenly spread out wealth was in Ancient Rome back then. Apparently, the U.S. Research revealed how the one percent of earners only made up 16% of the national wealth in Ancient Rome. For the sake of comparison, 40% of the wealth of the United States is presently controlled by the people in the top one percent. Studies have revealed that while this helped expand the empire, it also helped bring the collapse of the Roman Republic later on. The rich people got richer and the poor people got poorer. With the arrival of Julius Caesar, however, things began to change.
Lower Income Inequality Than In Present-Day America