Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Nowhere is that seen so clearly as with Greek and Roman slavery, understood more and more as underpinning those two societies in a fundamental way. Our course will explore how the creation of all that ...

Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its ...

It’s the home of Commodus Maximus, a Roman architect, and his slave, Josephus. Life as a slave in ancient Rome was usually very hard. They worked in mines and on farms, and many worked in houses ...

Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom that was used by slaves in a dig near Pompeii ... an insight into the social hierarchy in ancient Rome, as the culture ministry noted that there was ...

Fights also included staged hunts, and it’s conceivable that gladiators rode exotic wildlife. In Gladiator II, a gladiator ...

Life in Ancient Rome may seem glamorous through the lens of historical achievements, but beneath the grandeur was a world ...