Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

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

Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely

This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in t

This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, w