Did citizens of Rome care about the poor?

Answer 1

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.

Answer 2

The citizens of Rome didn't particularly care about the poor one way or another. The poor were just the poor. They were handy if they hired themselves out as farm workers during harvest time, or did some other hired out job for the more wealthy. The emperors gave them food and entertainment to keep them pacified. Remember, the ancients lived in a different culture than ours. The concept of "love they neighbor as thyself" was unknown to them. The emperor Nero did try to make their living conditions better after the great fire, but after his reign, their living conditions reverted to their former squalor.

Answer 3

The Roman upper classes actually had very little contact with the poor or lower classes. If they needed a service that their slaves may not be able to provide they would hire a poor person who could do the job. The wealthy landowners often hired poor people to work their farms at planting and harvest times, as it was more economical to pay people wages for a few weeks than to buy and support a slave for only a few weeks' work. Other than needing their services on occasion, the rich hardly knew they existed. A perfect example of this "class gap" is after the assassination of Julius Caesar when the conspirators thought that they would be hailed as heroes by the people. They had no clue as to the popularity of Caesar with the poor.