Slaves were property of their dominus, objects rather than
persons, without rights: These are some components of our basic
knowledge about Roman slavery. But Roman slavery was more diverse than
we might assume from the standard wording about servile legal status.
Numerous inscriptions as well as literary and legal sources reveal clear
differences in the social structure of Roman slavery. There were
numerous groups and professions who shared the status of being unfree
while inhabiting very different worlds.
The papers in this
volume pose the question of whether and how legal texts reflected such
social differences within the Roman servile community. Did the legal
system reinscribe social differences, and if so, in what shape? Were
exceptions created only in individual cases, or did the legal system
generate privileges for particular groups of slaves? Did it reinforce
and even promote social differentiation? All papers probe neuralgic
points that are apt to challenge the homogeneous image of Roman slave
law. They show that this law was a good deal more colourful than
historical research has so far assumed. The authors’ primary concern is
to make this legal diversity accessible to historical scholarship.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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