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Freed slaves and Roman imperial culture: social integration and the transformation of values

By MacLean , Rose B

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781107142923, 9781316534144, 110714292X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24734493 bytes)
Pages
xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm\222
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
265-30 B.C;Rome -- History -- Empire30 B.C.-284 A.D;Rome -- Social conditions -- 510-3Freedmen;Freedmen--Rome;Manners and customs;Social

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Freed slaves & the roman elite -- Achieving immortality under the principate -- Cultural exchange in roman society -- Imperial freedmen & imperial power -- Telling life stories.;"During the transition from Republic to Empire, the Roman aristocracy adapted traditional values to accommodate the advent of monarchy. Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture examines the ways in which members of the elite appropriated strategies from freed slaves to negotiate their relationship to the princeps and to redefine measures of individual progress. Primarily through the medium of inscribed burial monuments, Roman freedmen entered a broader conversation about power, honor, virtue, memory, and the nature of the human life course. Through this process, former slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of aristocratic values at a critical moment in Roman history"--

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