CLAS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Via Cassia, Legatus
16 Nov 2018
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Some of the best evidence of the lives of freedmen and freedwomen in rome comes from the funerary monuments. This was a social class that was obsessed with leaving their mark on roman society, but mostly during death. We can learn many things about these inscriptions such as: Social bonds - to freed people and other freedmen. The kinds of professions that they had in life. Their role of their children presenting the place. There is an image of the freedmen portraits: the publius. Says from the testament of publius gessius, primus, freedmen of publius. The attire the old man in the centre is notable. This is the image of the publius gessius. Because of his costume, we can see that in life he held a military rank probably of military tribute or legatus. She was eventually freed and became the wife of.
