ABSTRACT
The inhabitants of Rome lived with the reality of legal courts scattered throughout the public and private spaces of the city, and perhaps even came to resent, on occasion, the impact such courts made on traffic flow during the busy hours of the day. One can imagine that on many occasions passers-by with spare time stopped to listen to court proceedings. What did the scene look like? How were the different participants positioned within the space? In Chapter One we considered where courts were located within the city landscape; now we will narrow our focus to investigate the courtroom arrangement and the physical interactions between the various participants.
