The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture

142 THE ROMAN EMPIRE who ran workshops or commercial operations for the profi t of their masters were permitted considerable fre ...

THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 143 reasoned decision, but this inscription more than anything makes me realize what a ridiculous farce it ...

144 THE ROMAN EMPIRE subscribed to the dominant social values, as demonstrated by his wealth, his large retinue of slaves, and h ...

THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 145 Social mobility The oppressiveness of the social hierarchy depended in part on the limitations in oppor ...

146 THE ROMAN EMPIRE demographic and other reasons, leaving open many places for new men in the curial order. What was the socia ...

THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 147 Addendum Status and class Whether Roman society is more profi tably analysed in terms of status or clas ...

148 THE ROMAN EMPIRE At the bottom of the social and economic scale, and with little chance of improving their position, ‘the po ...

THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 149 The monograph of Mouritsen (2011a) fi lls a large gap in recent scholarship on freedmen. Junian Latins ...

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Introduction When Romans of the Augustan age compared their own times with their idealized past, they lamented, among other thin ...

152 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Romans... pushed things to the limit of logic’ so that the principles stand out ‘in sociologically misleadi ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 153 young boy whose father had died could possess power in his own one- man familia. A defi nition that exc ...

154 THE ROMAN EMPIRE decades by historians who have shown that people of past times did not, as a general rule, live in large, e ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 155 property from her husband’s was reinforced early in the Principate by the extension of a prohibition on ...

156 THE ROMAN EMPIRE in later Mediterranean societies. Literary and legal sources suggest that senatorial men and women probably ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 157 latitude to come to radically different conclusions about the quality of marital devotion and affection ...

158 THE ROMAN EMPIRE participate directly in political life or the courts. Though some women displayed literary talent, they wer ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 159 In some early modern societies, the dowry constituted the daughter’s share of the family estate, or at ...

160 THE ROMAN EMPIRE servile population in de facto or de iure marriages, but more often freeborn and servile lived with partner ...

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD 161 of their patrimony. Yet the father could preempt this procedure by leaving a mere fraction of his estat ...