Free at last! the impact of freed slaves on the Roman Empire edited by Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Sinclair, editor.

Ramsby, Teresa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons--Rome--History.

Freed persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Rome.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 period between the first century BC and the early third century AD and survey the territories of the Roman Republic and Empire, while focusing on Italy and Rome."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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 period between the first century BC and the early third century AD and survey the territories of the Roman Republic and Empire, while focusing on Italy and Rome

Contents:

Introduction

Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Locating the Grapevine in the Late Republic: Freedom and Communication

Pauline Ripat, University of Winnipeg, Canada

The Face of the Social Climber: Roman Freedmen and Elite Ideology

Babara Borg, University of Exeter, UK

The Freedman Economy of Roman Italy

Koenraad Verboven, University of Ghent, Belgium ?

Deciphering Freedwomen in the Roman Empire

Marc Kleijwegt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Feasting the Dead Together: Household Burials and the Social Strategies of Slaves and Freed Persons in the Early Principate

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

'Reading' the Freed Slave in the Cena Trimalchionis

Between Fame and Infamia: The Image and Influence of Roman Charioteers

Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University, USA

'Saintly Souls:' White Teachers' Instruction of Greek and Latin to African American Freedmen

Michele Ronnick, Wayne State University, USA

Response

Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University, USA

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472555687

1472555686

9781299051652

1299051650

9781472502957

1472502957

OCLC:

827944717