Sandra R Joshel
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Rome was a slave society. Beyond the thousands of slaves who worked and lived in the heartland of the Roman Empire, slavery fundamentally shaped Roman society and culture. In this book, Sandra Joshel offers a comprehensive overview of Roman slavery. Using a variety of sources, including literature, law, and material culture, she examines the legal condition of Roman slaves, traces the stages of the sale of slaves, analyzes the relations between slaves...
Author
Series
Oklahoma series in classical culture volume 11
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
What was daily life like for a working man or woman in the Roman Empire? What was the meaning of labor for the laborer? Roman authors (who seldom were workers) depicted workers in ancient Rome but generally used stereotypes intended to amuse the upper class. "Common" men and women did write of their own lives, often poignantly and eloquently, in their epitaphs and votive dedications. At death they claimed the identity they had worked a lifetime to...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"Women and Slaves in Classical Culture" examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world. The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including the mythical constructions of epic and drama, the love poems of Ovid, the Greek medical writers, Augustine's...