Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...

Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture...

symbols. Slavery was a widely accepted practice in ancient Greece, as it was in contemporaneous societies. The principal use of slaves was in agriculture...

and was protected under law mainly as his or her master's property. In Ancient Rome, a slave who had been manumitted was a libertus (feminine liberta)...

history, whether perpetrated by non-Europeans or by other Europeans. Slavery in ancient Rome was frequently dependent on a person's socio-economic status and...

concubinage resulted in racially mixed populations. The practice declined as a result of the abolition of slavery. In ancient Rome, the practice was formalized...

Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such...

Slavery in ancient Egypt existed at least since the Old Kingdom period. Discussions of slavery in Pharaonic Egypt are complicated by terminology used...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as...

Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 0-19-512332-8. Werner, Paul (1978). Life in Rome in Ancient Times. Geneva:...

ancilla) were female house slaves in ancient Rome, as well as in Europe during the Middle Ages. In Medieval Europe, slavery was gradually replaced by serfdom...

first appearance in De re rustica in Book 1, Chapter 3. Villa dei Volusii Christopher Francese (2007). Ancient Rome in So Many Words. Hippocrene Books....

pp. 137–142. Keith Bradley, "'The Bitter Chain of Slavery’: Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome," Snowden Lectures, Hellenic Centre of Harvard University...

of their respective schools, both ancient and modern, because it caused internal dissension, disputes with Rome's Italian allies, slave revolts, and...

Slave Market, also completed in 1884. Slavery in Ancient Rome The Slave Market (Gérôme painting) "Slave Market in Ancient Rome". hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved...

Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual"...

Martial mentions as a hunter in two of his epigrams (vii.27.3; xi.69.3). Due to Roman law, if a slave owner is murdered in his home, his slaves could be...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman...

Bradley, Keith (November 2, 2020). "'The Bitter Chain of Slavery': Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome". Harvard University. Archived from the original on...

Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher...

slave trade Slavery in ancient Greece Slavery in ancient Rome Slavery in antiquity Slavery in medieval Europe Slavery in modern Africa Slavery in 21st-century...

In ancient Rome, the dediticii or peregrini dediticii were a class of free provincials who were neither slaves nor citizens holding either full Roman...

to slavery in ancient Rome and slavery in ancient Greece. However, the practice of slavery in the early medieval Near East also grew out of slavery practices...

mainland Italy, led by Spartacus. Battles of the Servile Wars Slavery in ancient Rome Roman Republican civil wars Latrocinium This article includes a list...

the occupants in a state between freedom and slavery. The colonus system can be considered a predecessor of European feudal serfdom. In Italy,[when?]...

River. The details of slavery in ancient Rome slavery in Roman Portugal are not well-known; however, there were several forms of slavery, including enslaved...

Adoption in ancient Rome was primarily a legal procedure for transferring paternal power (potestas) to ensure succession in the male line within Roman...

matter of commercium; both prostitution and slavery in ancient Rome were widespread practices with protections in law for buyers and sellers. Modern justifications...

These legal proceedings were to be held at pre-determined times in the provinces and in Rome. Any slave under the age of thirty could achieve full citizenship...

in prison at Caesarea Maritima (early date) or more likely from Rome (later date) in conjunction with the composition of Colossians. The Epistle to Philemon...