SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by pirates, or slaves bought outside Roman territory. In hard times, it was not ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been estimated to have reached 100,000 men, Spartacus defeated a series of Roman attacks using tactics which would now be ...

It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauritania.

The wooden writing tablet is the only deed of a sale of a slave to have been found in Roman Britain.Originally it was coated with black wax in which the scribe wrote with a stilus, but now his ...

The main defendants, Gadalias and Saulos, stood accused of corrupt dealings, including falsified documents and fictitious ...

The case revolves around two individuals, Gadalias and Saulos, accused of fraudulent slave transactions and evading Roman taxes. Gadalias, the son of a notary and possibly a Roman citizen ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century ... On the other hand, female slaves were common and filled a huge variety of roles, from ladies’ maids to farm workers ...

much frequented by the Roman emperors. Diana had a close affinity with slaves, her feast day on 13th August being the only day slaves were entitled to an annual holiday. Thus, while it is rare for ...