CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Roman Citizenship, Incitatus, Undera
Document Summary
Artifact: the relief of the furii: 30 b. c. Several adults sharing some form of group identification. Likely slaves who served in the same household. The three women share sufficient resemblance to allude to blood relation. Inscription itself provides their names- indicates that first four individuals were slaves who served in the furii family- the fifth previously owned by another family. This form of representation (i. e. non-nuclear groups in portraits) points to extended network of relationships that existed beyond slave marriages- Further proven when considering that terms of husband & wife were less preferred compared to terms like co-slave The stereotype of the freedmen- trimalchio (petronius" satyricon) 16 (cid:18853)and now i both thank you & congratulate you. "should be our friends rather than out slave" Affectionate, familial bond between master & slave; recognized tiro"s talents. Tiro received an education that was equal to cicero"s. Tiro remained loyal to cicero after being manumitted- catalogued & published.