Freed persons and work in the Roman Empire
an approach based on epigraphic documentation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2020.v5.11782Keywords:
Freed persons, Work, Roman slavery, Latin EpigraphyAbstract
This article examines mentions of work activities in inscriptions related to people of servile origin in the Roman Empire. After presenting Cicero’s disparaging view of work expressed by in his De Officiis, we examined epigraphic documents from the 1st century A.D. with the aim of ascertaining how freed persons perceived and experienced their occupations. We argue that freed persons’ emphasis on their work activities constituted an attempt to regain a public identity despite all social prejudices arising from slavery.
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