Major social changes and dislocations accompanied the demographic shifts and economic development. Relations between rich and poor in Rome had traditionally been structured by the bond existing between patron and client.
How did social status affect the Roman Empire?
At that time, social status determined how Roman citizens dressed, the legal privileges they had and even where they sat at public events. While citizens weren't equal under Roman law, non-citizens and slaves were considered beneath even the lowliest citizen. Immediately beneath the emperor and his family, the patricians were ancient Rome's elite.
What was lifelike in the Roman Senate?
Although they enjoyed high social status in ancient Rome, the Senate had very little power in the empire, and they served at the pleasure of the emperor. Most modern knowledge of life in Ancient Rome comes from writers such as historian Pliny the Younger, who lived in the 1st century A.D.
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