CLAS202 Quiz: CLAS202-Quiz2
26 May 2016
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Prostitution: business for many low-ranking people: slave boys and girls, slave women and men, freewomen and freedmen. Cheap and easy to have commodity (for men). Prince started as low as 2 asses = 1 loaf of bread. Conventional scenes: locations: brothels, public baths, private houses. Lower classes often taught by slaves or freedmen, higher education by grammaticus or rhetor (lat. Orator) mostly taught by members of middle and upper class. Dio 54. 5 (astures, spain 22bce: but also multiple evidence for positive relations between masters and slaves, complexity of social relations, slaves living like free persons conducting business. 73-71 bce in southern italy, led by spartacus extinguished by m. licinius crassus and cn. Pompey: ceasing to be a slave in the roman empire, manumission = setting free a slave (gaius, institutes i 9-19, terminology: manumission of a slave cf. mancipium, emancipatio (of a free child) Manumissio testamento: limitations of manumission since augustus.
