Suburra

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The Suburra is the modern Italian name for a neighborhood of Rome; in Antiquity, the word was usually spelled Subura, and was a red-light district. It is a proletarian area in the dip between the southern end of the Viminal and the western end of the Esquiline hills.

The famous Roman dictator Julius Caesar grew up in a home in the Subura district, even though he came of the most aristocratic origins.

References in popular culture

Colleen McCullough in her fictional series Masters of Rome depicts Caesar's mother (like her son) as sympathetic with the lower classes, and that she purchased a tenement building in the Subura as a residence.

The Subura, plays a role in Steven Saylor's historical fiction, Roman Blood.

External links

• Subura (article in Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome)

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