Roman Inequality - Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions

In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. Roman Inequality reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1 Inequality


• Chapter 2 Fiction: Reconciling Economic Reality and Juridicial Principles


• Chapter 3 Opportunity: From Freedom to Slavery-From Slavery to Freedom


• Chapter 4 Businesswomen: In Servitude and in Freedom


• Chapter 5 Servile Imperialism: In Power, In Servitude


• Works Cited


• General Index


• Index of Passages Cited

About the author

Edward E. Cohen is Professor of Classics and Ancient History (Adjunct) at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the economic and legal history of ancient Greece and Rome, and is the author of many books and articles on this subject, including Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex (also Oxford University Press).

Summary

In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. Roman Inequality reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.

Additional text

Roman Inequality is an important analysis of the law surrounding slavery and a convincing explanation of the economic dominance of enslaved, freed, and, in some cases, female workers... The book advances our understanding of the real--world implications of Roman law and provides new insights that have much to contribute across multiple fields of study.

Product details

• Authors: Cohen , Edward E. Cohen, Edward E. (Professor of Classics and Ancien Cohen, Cohen Edward E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2023
• EAN: 9780197687345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768734-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LAW / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Economic history, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Roman law, Systems of law: Roman law