Intellectual Property : Learned Slaves and Educated Freedmen in Republican Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flower, Harriet I.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome Slaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction. Intellectual Pursuits and the (Formerly) Enslaved

One. Licinius the Flute Player and Gaius Gracchus the Orator

Two. In the Households of Cato the Censor and Atticus the Businessman

Three. The Homegrown and the Immigrant: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis the Freedman and Archias of Antioch the Greek Poet

Four. Multitaskers: Aurelius Opillus and Lucius Cornelius Epicadus

Five. Foundlings: A Genial "Miser" and a Librarian who Collected Old Jokes

Six. Intellectual Prisoners Captured in War: Two Tyrants, a Literary Scholar, and a Fierce Critic

Seven. Conclusion: Glimpses of Educated Men who had been Enslaved

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27021-X

OCLC:

1530379954