SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

What drew you and your co-editor to push forward with a book on working life in ancient ... of Roman enslavement had a distinct effect on a wide range of people's working lives. Unlike slavery ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." ...

It’s the home of Commodus Maximus, a Roman architect, and his slave, Josephus. Life as a slave in ancient Rome was usually very hard. They worked in mines and on farms, and many worked in houses ...

On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique ...

and the organization of daily life to ancient slavery, economics, and law. Focuses either on Persia, Greece, or Rome and includes a particular emphasis on the methodology required to reconstruct an ...