[PDF] Slaves To Rome eBook

Author : Myles Lavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107311128

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This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE.

Author : Zvi Yavetz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412834131

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Enormous numbers of slaves were absorbed into Roman society from the third century B.C. onwards. Mainly enslaved prisoners of war, they transformed the quality of life in the Roman Empire beyond recognition. In this anthology the author offers a complete collection of Greek and Latin sources in an English translation which deal with the great slave rebellions in the second and first centuries B.C. In a postscript Zvi Yavetz surveys the controversy on slaves and slavery from the French Revolution to our own days, with an emphasis on the debate between Marxists and non-Marxists. The book is intended for specialists and generalists alike, including those who have had no previous classical education, but could after delving in sources concern themselves with one of the most intriguing problems in world history. Zvi Yavetz holds the Lessing Chair of Roman History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and is distinguished visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books in Hebrew, French and German on Roman history among which are Julius Caesar and His Public Image and Plebs and Princips.

Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1994-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 131613914X

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This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and resisted slavery, and reveals how slavery, as an institution, became more and more oppressive over time under the impact of philosophical and religious teaching. The book stresses the harsh realities of life in slavery and the way in which slavery was an integral part of Roman civilisation.

Author : Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521535018

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A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Emma Dench
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0191518344

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Modern treatments of Rome have projected in highly emotive terms the perceived problems, or the aspirations, of the present: 'race-mixture' has been blamed for the collapse of the Roman empire; more recently, Rome and Roman society have been depicted as 'multicultural'. Moving beyond these and beyond more traditional, juridical approaches to Roman identity, Emma Dench focuses on ancient modes of thinking about selves and relationships with other peoples, including descent-myths, history, and ethnographies. She explores the relative importance of sometimes closely interconnected categories of blood descent, language, culture and clothes, and territoriality. Rome's creation of a distinctive imperial shape is understood in the context of the broader ancient Mediterranean world within which the Romans self-consciously situated themselves, and whose modes of thought they appropriated and transformed.

Author : K. R. Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195206074

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This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, was maintained over time and how, at the practical level, the lives of slaves in the Roman world were directly controlled by their masters. The author demonstrates, first, how the tensions generated between slaves and masters can be perceived in the ancient sources, and, second, how those tensions were dealt with, as masters treated their slaves with varying forms of generosity and punishment in order to elicit obedience from them. Special attention is given to the slaves' family lives, to their acquisition of freedom through manumission, and to the climate of violence that surrounded them. Emphasizing the harsh realities of Roman slavery in a new way, this important book will stir intense debate among scholars and students.

Author : Kyle Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1139504061

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Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triumphed amidst a genuine slave society.

Author : Alice Rio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198704054

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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of unfreedom: Roman slavery at one end; at the other, the serfdom of the twelfth century and beyond, together with, in Southern Europe, a revitalized urban chattel slavery dealing chiefly in non-Christians. How and why this major change took place in the intervening period has been a long-standing puzzle. This study picks up the various threads linking this transformation across the centuries, and situates them within the full context of what slavery and unfreedom were being used for in the early middle ages. This volume adopts a broad comparative perspective, covering different regions of Western Europe over six centuries, to try to answer the following questions: who might become enslaved and why? What did this mean for them, and for their lords? What made people opt for certain ways of exploiting unfree labor over others in different times and places, and is it possible, underneath all this diversity, to identify some coherent trajectories of historical change?

Author : R.H. Barrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1000647811

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Slavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. It analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.

Author : Peter Schutes
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-21
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ISBN : 9781729051610

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As a youth, Formosus Petrus was captured and enslaved in a Roman fullonica, or laundry. He has no hope, and no protection from the many greedy men and slaves who seek him out for succor. His luck changes when Longinus Megas, an enormously endowed Thracian slave, is sold to the fullonica. Longinus defends Formosus, who is uniquely gifted to accommodate the many needs of his handsome protector. He also has skills that are in high demand from the Patricians of Rome. Together they hatch a scheme to gain freedom and wealth. When things go terribly wrong, the many people they have satisfied return the favor, and send them on their magic-filled journey to freedom.About Ancient Rome, Peter writes: Ancient Roman Society was arranged in a hierarchy with Patricians at the top, Plebeians in the middle, and Slaves at the bottom. In between were Freed men, Soldiers and Women. No matter where you were situated on the societal ladder, the slave was the lowest. A slave was owned. His owner had great freedom to use the slave as he saw fit. There were laws that protected slaves from sheer brutality, but they were difficult to enforce, for a slave was not permitted to use the legal system. Slaves could be loaned, borrowed, or sold. If a slave were ever set free, he could never be a citizen, but he could enjoy most of the rights of the Plebeians as a Freed man.A delicate boy like our hero is likely to fall to the lowest rank within slave society. He is not only slave to his owner, but to fellow slaves. His submissive nature leaves him vulnerable to the cruelty of the society around him. True love, a magical balm, seeks to right the imbalance and heal the scars that slavery has inflicted. Few in this world are lucky enough to find such love and remain scarred for life