After all, Roman law designated slaves as property, not people. However, slavery in ancient Rome underpinned much of society’s success, and the freeborn citizens of Rome were heavily dependent ...

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 ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

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 ...

The Roman Empire had many slaves, as well as citizens who were ... The Tarpeian Rock was a steep cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic as an execution site.

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... If they angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into slavery or even kill them. Only the paterfamilias could own property ...

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