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Roman inequality : affluent slaves, businesswomen, legal fictions / Edward E. Cohen

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023

1 online resource.

Englisch

Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-768737-6 (ebook)

978-0-19-768734-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1392082364     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780197687345.001.0001

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LOC-SH: Social stratification -- History -- Rome ; Enslaved persons -- Social conditions -- Rome ; Equality -- Economic aspects -- History -- Rome ; Commercial law -- Rome ; Businesswomen -- Rome ; Rome -- Social conditions ; Rome -- Economic conditions

Society ; Society & culture: general

In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. 'Roman Inequality' reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.