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Freed Persons in the Roman World
Status, Diversity, and Representation
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Freed Persons in the Roman World
Status, Diversity, and Representation
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How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and shared the experience of enslavement and manumission, many different interactions could derive from these commonalities in different periods and localities across the empire. 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. By approaching the literary and epigraphic representations of freed persons in new ways, it nuances the impact of power asymmetries and social strategies on the cultural practices and lived experiences of freed persons.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Table
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliographical Note
- Introduction: Freed Persons in the Roman World: Status, Diversity, and Representation
- 1 Permissu decurionum: Freed Persons and Burial Management in the Collective Tomb of the Volusii
- 2 Freed Public Slaves in Roman Italy and the Western Provinces: Legal Status and Social Integration
- 3 Fitting in by Decree: Freed Slaves, Euergetism, and Local Politics
- 4 Doubling Up: Patronal and Familial Designations on Epitaphs
- 5 The Cost of Ingratitude: Freed Persons, Patrons, and Re-enslavement
- 6 Between Moral Slavery and Legal Freedom: Freed People and Aristocratic Behavior in Neronian Literature
- 7 Framing the Freed Person: (De)contextualizing the Representation of Freed People’s Voices in the Literary Record
- 8 Novel Evidence for Ancient Freed People: Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca and the Cena Trimalchionis
- 9 The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freed Persons
- General Bibliography
- Index
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