Did the Romans Live Cheek by Jowl With Much Poorer People?

There's a sense that we might naively imagine, while there were rich people and poor people, and the rich people were in gated communities. But cause the society was the way that it was, because you had slaves and you had freed slaves,. There was a lot of this cheek by jowl nature. People weren't sealed off in there physically, in their own little worlds. And then, as i pursued that issue further, i was very struck by how very much that separate segregation is a phenomenon of the industrial world. The romans never made it to new york. The vikings did. The roman world is part, a distinctive part, but part of an