(θόρυβος/thórybos, ψόφος/psóphos, ὄχλος/óchlos; Latin strepitus, clamor). Nowadays humans and animals are exposed to the nuisance of noise everywhere. In Antiquity this was limited to centres of population concentration like Alexandria (Call. Hecale fr. 260,63-69) or Rome (Stat. Silv. 4,4,18: clamosa urbs, ‘the noisy capital city’). Information about this can really only be found in the Roman sources of the Imperial period.
Especially in Rome in the 1st cents. BC and AD, i.e. in periods of relative prosperity, the most varied of everyday ac…