Free at last! : the impact of freed slaves on the Roman empire /

How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bell, Sinclair, Ramsby, Teresa R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.
Temas:
Freed persons > Rome > History.
Freed persons > Rome > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Rome.
Slavery > Rome > History.
Personnes affranchies > Rome > Histoire.
Personnes affranchies > Rome > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Rome.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Civilization
Freed persons
Freed persons > Social conditions
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Freigelassener
Rome > Civilization.
Rome > Civilisation.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby
  • The face of the social climber : Roman freedmen and elite ideology / Barbara E. Borg
  • Locating the grapevine in the late republic : freedmen and communication / Pauline Ripat
  • 'Reading' the freed slave in the Cena trimalchionis / Teresa Ramsby
  • The freedman economy of Roman Italy / Koenraad Verboven
  • Deciphering freedwomen in the Roman Empire / Marc Kleijwegt
  • Feasting the dead together : household burials and the social strategies of slaves and freed persons in the early principate / Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
  • 'Saintly souls' : white teachers' advocacy and instruction of Greek and Latin to African American freedmen / Michele Valerie Ronnick
  • Response essay : what has Pliny to say? / Eleanor Winsor Leach.

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