Emma Southon, „Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman World“
We associate the Romans with majesty and greatness: we marvel at their straight roads and innovative underfloor heating, at the dominance of their army and navy, at the grandeur of their palaces and temples. But the Romans were also enslavers. They built an empire on the backs of millions of people snatched from their homes in the aftermath of war, kidnapped from the streets, sold into slavery as punishment or, simply, born enslaved.
Servus takes us into the invisible spaces of the Roman world, where millions of enslaved lives were unwillingly dedicated to the perpetuation of the empire that owned them. From the fields of wheat required to give every Roman their daily bread, to the actors and gladiators who provided their circuses, and the miners who kept Rome a city of gold and marble, enslaved people were the bedrock of the Roman Empire. These enslaved people were ubiquitous, but silenced. Through the fragments they left behind, historian Emma Southon traces the pain and tragedy of their lives alongside the love stories, lifelong friendships, small victories and hard-won freedoms. Servus tells the truth about the Roman empire and the unseen lives that made it so dominant.
Emma Southon holds a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham. The author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West and Agrippina, she co-hosts a history podcast with writer Janina Matthewson called History Is Sexy and works as a bookseller at Waterstones Belfast.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: ENTERING SLAVERY
1 War Captives
2 Born a Slave
3 Born Free
4 Violence
5 People for Sale
PART TWO: LIVING IN SLAVERY
6 Resistance: The Servile Wars
7 Everyday Resistance
8 Everyday Compliance
PART THREE: SITES OF SLAVERY
9 Slavery in the House
10 Imperial Slavery
11 Slavery in the City
12 Slavery in the Mines
13 Slavery on the Farm
14 Slavery for Pleasure
PART FOUR: LEAVING SLAVERY
15 Manumission
Conclusion: Why Was There No Roman Abolition Movement?
A Timeline of Roman History
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Picture Acknowledgements
Works Cited
Notes
Footnotes
Objavljeno: 2026.
ISBN: 9781399741255
448 str.
Hodder and Stoughton
Opširnije: https://www.emmasouthon.com/servus