Plautus and Roman slavery /

• Main Author: Stewart, Roberta, 1958-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: Plautus, Titus Maccius > Characters > Slaves.; Plautus, Titus Maccius.; Slavery > Rome > History.; Slavery in literature.; Slaves > Rome.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.; Slavery.; Slaves.; Rome (Empire); Electronic books.; History.

This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century BCE and ending with antiquity's first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s BCE. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery - and not simply m...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Human property
• Enslavement, or 'seasoning' slaves
• Violence, private and communal
• Release from slavery
• The problem of action
• Conclusion.