Life as a Roman slave was harsh and dehumanizing but also full of strange contradictions, unexpected privileges, and unusual roles. This video explores the lesser-known and bizarre aspects of slavery ...

Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times, Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, ... Life as a slave ...

Roman women usually married in their early teenage years, while men waited until they were in their mid-twenties. As a result, the materfamilias (mother of the family) was usually much younger ...

In the golden days of Rome, life required slaves. Lots of them. How and where to buy the best gets “The Roman Guide to Slave Management: A Treatise by Marcus Sidonius Falx” (Overlook, $24.95 ...

The realities of slavery. In Plutarch's day Rome had been the predominant political power in the ancient Mediterranean world for roughly 500 years, and was to remain so for three centuries more.

Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom used by slaves in a dig near the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

A dam Smith tells a story of the new Emperor Augustus and his reaction to the behavior of one of his allies, an equestrian (or “knight”) magnate named Vedius Pollio. Smith’s telling is at ...

Archaeologists have found rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain in the form of a man buried in a ditch with a locked set of iron fetters around his ankles.

Item 1 of 5 Archaeologists work inside a "slaves room" discovered at a Roman villa near the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 AD in volcanic eruption, Italy, 2021.