Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture
Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture
Social Integration and the Transformation of Values
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During the transition from Republic to Empire, the Roman aristocracy adapted traditional values to accommodate the advent of monarchy. Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture examines the ways in which members of the elite appropriated strategies from freed slaves to negotiate their relationship to the princeps and to redefine measures of individual progress. Primarily through the medium of inscribed burial monuments, Roman freedmen entered a broader conversation about power, honor, virtue, memory, and the nature of the human life course. Through this process, former slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of aristocratic values at a critical moment in Roman history.
- Examines freed slaves' impact on Roman cultural history
- Identifies new factors in the transformation of elite values under the Principate
- Combines analysis of inscriptions with close readings of literary texts
Product details
April 2018Adobe eBook Reader
9781108631839
0 pages
10 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Freed slaves and the Roman elite
- 2. Achieving immortality under the Principate
- 3. Cultural exchange in Roman society
- 4. Imperial freedmen and imperial power
- 5. Telling life stories
- Conclusion.
