Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Nowhere is that seen so clearly as with Greek and Roman slavery, understood more and more as underpinning those two societies in a fundamental way. Our course will explore how the creation of all that ...

Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom that was used by slaves in a dig near Pompeii ... an insight into the social hierarchy in ancient Rome, as the culture ministry noted that there was ...

Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its ...

An immaculately preserved room, once inhabited by slaves, has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy, said The Archaeological Park of Pompeii. In the small undecorated room ...

In old Hollywood epic movies, Roman Emperors would make their slaves fight lions in the Colosseum. The battles were one-sided by definition. No slave could kill a lion with his bare hands.

Nora finds her privileged life of nobility over as she wakes up to the nightmare of slave tears of Rome.

Ancient Rome ... As a result, the Roman state gave legal rewards to women who had successfully given birth. After three live babies (or four children for former slaves), women were recognized ...

JULIA: There was a big difference between how girls and boys were expected to behave in ancient Rome and the kinds of ... Gallio is a slave. It was very common for families to have slaves to ...