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This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Mémoires d'Hadrien as an authentic portrait of a Roman emperor.

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This book is concerned with what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with the impact of the institution of slavery on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and r...

Apuleius and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how socio-cultural history can be recovered from works of literature.

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Surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean over three thousand years, concentrating particularly on the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery.