Ramsby - Free At Last!: the Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire

FREE AT LAST!

The Impact of Freed Slaves on
the Roman Empire

Edited by
Sinclair Bell
and
Teresa Ramsby

Bloomsbury Academic

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First published in 2012 by Bristol Classical Press an imprint of
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.

Reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013

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2012 by Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby

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Sinclair Bell & Teresa Ramsby

Barbara E. Borg

Pauline Ripat

Teresa Ramsby

Koenraad Verboven

Marc Kleijwegt

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho

Michele Valerie Ronnick

Eleanor Winsor Leach

Sinclair Bell is Assistant Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on Etruscan and Roman visual and material culture, especially sport and spectacle. He is the co-editor of Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity (Oxford, 2004), Role Models in the Roman World (Ann Arbor, 2008), and New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome (Madison, 2009).

Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art and culture, with one focus being on Roman portraiture. Her books include two monographs on Romano-Egyptian portrait mummies and an edited volume on Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic (Berlin, 2004).

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His fields of interest include non-elites, slavery, and poverty in the Roman world; the city of Rome (topography, settlement, and urban history); and late antiquity. He is the author of Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, AD 318-364 (Berkeley, forthcoming).

Marc Kleijwegt is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor of The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission and Emancipation of Slaves in Old World and New World Slavery (Leiden and Boston, 2006). He is currently working on the study of aspects of Greco-Roman slavery in comparative perspective.

Teresa Ramsby is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her fields of interest include Roman poetry and the representations of women and the other in Roman literature. She is the author of Textual Permanence: Roman Elegists and the Epigraphic Tradition (London, 2007).

Pauline Ripat is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. She has published several articles on Roman magic, divination, and religious specialists, particularly as these subjects relate to communication between different elements of Roman society.

Michele Valerie Ronnick is Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her work includes studies of Latin literature, the classical tradition in general and its reception by people of African descent in particular. Her books include The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship (Detroit, 2005) and William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (Oxford, 2006).

Koenraad Verboven is lecturer at Ghent University. His research focuses mainly on the role of social relations, organizations and networks in the Roman economy and on financial and monetary history. He is the author of The Economy of Friends. Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic (Brussels, 2002).

Eleanor Winsor Leach is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Classical Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and the History of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. With interests both in Latin Literature and Roman art she often works at the intersection of the two fields. Among her papers is an earlier study on the topic of this collection, Constructing Identity: Q. Haterius and C. Trimalchio Decorate their Tombs, in E. DAmbra and G. Metraux (eds) The Art of Citizens, Soldiers and Freedmen in the Roman World (Oxford, 2006) 1-18. Her current project is a book examining the construction of epistolary dialogue in letters of Cicero and the Younger Pliny.

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