{"id":55147,"date":"2026-09-01T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55147"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:57:16","slug":"emma-southon-servus-how-slavery-made-the-roman-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55147","title":{"rendered":"Emma Southon, \u201eServus: How Slavery Made the Roman World\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<br><br><em>Servus <\/em>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. <em>Servus <\/em>tells the truth about the Roman empire and the unseen lives that made it so dominant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emma Southon <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<br>PART ONE: ENTERING SLAVERY<br>1 War Captives<br>2 Born a Slave<br>3 Born Free<br>4 Violence<br>5 People for Sale<br>PART TWO: LIVING IN SLAVERY<br>6 Resistance: The Servile Wars<br>7 Everyday Resistance<br>8 Everyday Compliance<br>PART THREE: SITES OF SLAVERY<br>9 Slavery in the House<br>10 Imperial Slavery<br>11 Slavery in the City<br>12 Slavery in the Mines<br>13 Slavery on the Farm<br>14 Slavery for Pleasure<br>PART FOUR: LEAVING SLAVERY<br>15 Manumission<br>Conclusion: Why Was There No Roman Abolition Movement?<br>A Timeline of Roman History<br>Glossary<br>Acknowledgements<br>Picture Acknowledgements<br>Works Cited<br>Notes<br>Footnotes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Objavljeno: 2026.<br>ISBN: 9781399741255<br>448 str.<br>Hodder and Stoughton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmasouthon.com\/servus\">https:\/\/www.emmasouthon.com\/servus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201eServus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire\u201c Emme Southon istra\u017euje \u017eivote milijuna robova \u010diji je rad bio jedan od temelja mo\u0107i Rimskoga Carstva."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Servus-Southon.webp?fit=666%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55111,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55111","url_meta":{"origin":55147,"position":0},"title":"Anthony Kaldellis, \u201eThe New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"26. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. 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