Freed Persons in the Roman World

Status, Diversity, and Representation
Herausgeber: Bell, Sinclair W; Maclean, Rose; Borbonus, Dorian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781009438537
• ISBN-10: 1009438530
• Artikelnr.: 69518743

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Freed persons in the Roman world: status, diversity, and
representation Sinclair W. Bell, Dorian Borbonus, and Rose Maclean; 1.
Permissu decurionum: freed persons and burial management in the collective
tomb of the Volusii Dorian Borbonus; 2. Freed public slaves in Roman Italy
and the western provinces: legal status and social integration Franco
Luciani; 3. Fitting in by decree: freed slaves, euergetism, and local
politics Marc Kleijwegt; 4. Doubling up: patronal and familial designations
on epitaphs Katharine Huemoeller; 5. The cost of ingratitude:freed persons,
patrons, and re-enslavement Nicole Giannella; 6. Between moral slavery and
legal freedom: freed people and aristocratic behavior in Neronian
literature Fábio Duarte Joly; 7. Framing the freed person:
(de)contextualizing the representation of freed peoples' voices in the
literary record Kristof Vermote; 8. Novel evidence for ancient freed
people: Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca and the Cena trimalchionis William
M. Owens; 9. The affects of manumission: racial melancholy and Roman freed
persons Dan-El Padilla Peralta.