place
Graecostasis
the Graecostasis
also: Graecostasi
A raised platform beside the Comitium in the Roman Forum where foreign envoys stood to watch Senate proceedings. In 57 BC Clodius's gangs raised their shout from here and the adjacent steps.
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.1 §3 from the Graecostasis and the steps
The Graecostasis was a raised platform beside the Comitium where foreign envoys stood; together with the adjacent steps it gave Clodius's hired gangs a vantage from which to disrupt the proceedings.