Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

So mostly trials were held in the covered space called the basilica, which is a great portico. You could have several trials going on at the same time. And there's a lovely, lovely document preserved on a wooden tablet from Herculaneum recording a trial. And the trial was actually held in Rome. And it specifies which building in Rome, the Forum of Augustus, it would be held in, and exactly when.

So mostly trials were held in the covered space called the basilica, which is a great portico. You could have several trials going on at the same time. And there's a lovely, lovely document preserved on a wooden tablet from Herculaneum recording a trial. And the trial was actually held in Rome. And it specifies which building in Rome, the Forum of Augustus, it would be held in, and exactly when.

So mostly trials were held in the covered space called the basilica, which is a great portico. You could have several trials going on at the same time. And there's a lovely, lovely document preserved on a wooden tablet from Herculaneum recording a trial. And the trial was actually held in Rome. And it specifies which building in Rome, the Forum of Augustus, it would be held in, and exactly when.

Which column in the forum, you know, the third column on the right, the praetor would hear the case. So you can expect in a basilica to find everything happening and not just legal cases. There will have been meetings of all sorts. So the basilica is the throbbing heart of an ancient city. And we do have the basilica of Herculaneum.

Which column in the forum, you know, the third column on the right, the praetor would hear the case. So you can expect in a basilica to find everything happening and not just legal cases. There will have been meetings of all sorts. So the basilica is the throbbing heart of an ancient city. And we do have the basilica of Herculaneum.

Which column in the forum, you know, the third column on the right, the praetor would hear the case. So you can expect in a basilica to find everything happening and not just legal cases. There will have been meetings of all sorts. So the basilica is the throbbing heart of an ancient city. And we do have the basilica of Herculaneum.

We've only excavated the edge of it, but the Bourbons tunneled the rest of it, and they did a very nice ground plan, and it's completely convincing, and they found fantastic inscriptions there. So we know where the Basilica was, and it's right by the fort.

We've only excavated the edge of it, but the Bourbons tunneled the rest of it, and they did a very nice ground plan, and it's completely convincing, and they found fantastic inscriptions there. So we know where the Basilica was, and it's right by the fort.

We've only excavated the edge of it, but the Bourbons tunneled the rest of it, and they did a very nice ground plan, and it's completely convincing, and they found fantastic inscriptions there. So we know where the Basilica was, and it's right by the fort.

That is completely right. And you asked me the wrong question because I've dedicated too much of my life to trying to understand this society and how these sites can actually help you to understand the society. When I first started working on Pompeii, and Herculaneum. My first book about it all was Pompeii and Herculaneum.

That is completely right. And you asked me the wrong question because I've dedicated too much of my life to trying to understand this society and how these sites can actually help you to understand the society. When I first started working on Pompeii, and Herculaneum. My first book about it all was Pompeii and Herculaneum.

That is completely right. And you asked me the wrong question because I've dedicated too much of my life to trying to understand this society and how these sites can actually help you to understand the society. When I first started working on Pompeii, and Herculaneum. My first book about it all was Pompeii and Herculaneum.

What I wanted to understand was, can you get an idea of the full spectrum of the inhabitants from the richest to the poorest? I set about it by looking at the full spectrum of places to live. Let's call them houses, but some are just flats from richest to poorest.

What I wanted to understand was, can you get an idea of the full spectrum of the inhabitants from the richest to the poorest? I set about it by looking at the full spectrum of places to live. Let's call them houses, but some are just flats from richest to poorest.

What I wanted to understand was, can you get an idea of the full spectrum of the inhabitants from the richest to the poorest? I set about it by looking at the full spectrum of places to live. Let's call them houses, but some are just flats from richest to poorest.

I've reached the conclusion in the end, it's even more complicated than that because even the richest houses contained poor people because they had tenants and they had slaves. In the biggest houses, everything is happening. In the littlest houses, very little is happening and they are relatively poor.

I've reached the conclusion in the end, it's even more complicated than that because even the richest houses contained poor people because they had tenants and they had slaves. In the biggest houses, everything is happening. In the littlest houses, very little is happening and they are relatively poor.

I've reached the conclusion in the end, it's even more complicated than that because even the richest houses contained poor people because they had tenants and they had slaves. In the biggest houses, everything is happening. In the littlest houses, very little is happening and they are relatively poor.

And one thing that fascinated me was, you know, the tourist wants to go into the big houses with the famous frescoes and lovely mosaic floors and even statues and so on and large impressive rooms. Yeah, but what about the little ones? And the thing that was striking me was that it's not just the big ones that have frescoes and mosaics and so on.

And one thing that fascinated me was, you know, the tourist wants to go into the big houses with the famous frescoes and lovely mosaic floors and even statues and so on and large impressive rooms. Yeah, but what about the little ones? And the thing that was striking me was that it's not just the big ones that have frescoes and mosaics and so on.