Free at last! : the impact of freed slaves on the Roman empire / edited by Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby.
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- 9781472502957
- 1472502957
- 1299051650
- 9781299051652
- Freed persons -- Rome -- History
- Freed persons -- Rome -- Social conditions
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Rome
- Slavery -- Rome -- History
- Rome -- Civilization
- Affranchis -- Rome -- Histoire
- Affranchis -- Rome -- Conditions sociales
- Esclaves -- Affranchissement -- Rome
- Rome -- Civilisation
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery
- Civilization
- Freed persons
- Freed persons -- Social conditions
- Slavery
- Slaves -- Emancipation
- Rome (Empire)
- Freigelassener
- Römisches Reich
- 306.3620937 23
- HT731 .F74x 2012eb
- 6,12
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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 on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence - visual, literary, epigraphic and archaeological - to elucidate the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture amid the shadow of their former servitude. The contributions span the pe.
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