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An introduction to the jobs people had during the time of the Roman Empire.
Author : Nicola Barber
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615323074
An introduction to the jobs people had during the time of the Roman Empire.
Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403405203
Presents an account of the skills and jobs that were necessary to run a city in ancient Roman times.
Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Best and Worst Jobs
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
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ISBN : 9781526300300
Author : Sarah Levin-Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108496873
Offers an in-depth exploration of the only assured brothel from the Greco-Roman world, illuminating the lives of both prostitutes and clients.
Author : Robyn Hardyman
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482403293
Though ancient Greece and Rome had their share of terrible jobs, perhaps the worst was that of the Roman gladiator. He trained endlessly, only to fight for his life anytime entertainment was needed. While some gladiators became rich and famous, most were simply slaughtered. Readers can form their own opinions about the most horrible job in ancient Greece and Rome as they learn surprising information about time-consuming, smelly, and dangerous tasks. Historical images and illustrations highlight horrible laundry practices, food preparation, and living conditions of the time. No detail is too gross to include!
Author : Edmund Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1108839479
This volume seeks to reassess ancient Greek and Roman society and its economy in examining skilled labour and professionalism.
Author : Laurens Ernst Tacoma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198768052
While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real interest as it presents a situation in which the volume of migration was high, and the migrants in question formed a mixture of voluntary migrants, slaves, and soldiers. Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history. It provides a coherent framework for the study of Roman migration on the basis of a detailed study of migration to the city of Rome in the first two centuries A.D. Advocating an approach in which voluntary migration is studied together with the forced migration of slaves and the state-organized migration of soldiers, it discusses the nature of institutional responses to migration, arguing that state controls focused mainly on status preservation rather than on the movement of people. It demonstrates that Roman family structure strongly favoured the migration of young unmarried males. Tacoma argues that in the case of Rome, two different types of the so-called urban graveyard theory, which predicts that cities absorbed large streams of migrants, apply simultaneously. He shows that the labour market which migrants entered was relatively open to outsiders, yet also rather crowded, and that although ethnic community formation could occur, it was hardly the dominant mode by which migrants found their way into Rome because social and economic ties often overrode ethnic ones. The book shows that migration impinges on social relations, on the Roman family, on demography, on labour relations, and on cultural interaction, and thus deserves to be placed high on the research agenda of ancient historians.
Author : Harold Whetstone Johnston
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : History
ISBN :
The Private Life of the Romans is a historical work by Harold Whetstone Johnston, a classical historian and Professor of Latin, presenting an account of common and ordinary life of the ancient Romans during the later Republic and earlier Empire. The book provides an opportunity to see the rarely portrayed other side of life of important political figures, since there is often the need of a simple and compact description of domestic life, to give more reality to the shadowy forms of their public careers.
Author : Judy E. Gaughan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0292721110
Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder. With implications that could modify the most fundamental beliefs about the Roman republic, Gaughan's research maintains that Roman criminal law did not contain a specific enactment against murder, although it had done so prior to the overthrow of the monarchy. While kings felt an imperative to hold monopoly over the power to kill, Gaughan argues, the republic phase ushered in a form of decentralized government that did not see itself as vulnerable to challenge by an act of murder. And the power possessed by individual families ensured that the government would not attain the responsibility for punishing homicidal violence. Drawing on surviving Roman laws and literary sources, Murder Was Not a Crime also explores the dictator Sulla's "murder law," arguing that it lacked any government concept of murder and was instead simply a collection of earlier statutes repressing poisoning, arson, and the carrying of weapons. Reinterpreting a spectrum of scenarios, Gaughan makes new distinctions between the paternal head of household and his power over life and death, versus the power of consuls and praetors to command and kill.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004331689
The economic success of the Roman Empire was unparalleled in the West until the early modern period. While favourable natural conditions, capital accumulation, technology and political stability all contributed to this, economic performance ultimately depended on the ability to mobilize, train and co-ordinate human work efforts. In Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World, the authors discuss new insights, ideas and interpretations on the role of labour and human resources in the Roman economy. They study the various ways in which work was mobilised and organised and how these processes were regulated. Work as a production factor, however, is not the exclusive focus of this volume. Throughout the chapters, the contributors also provide an analysis of work as a social and cultural phenomenon in Ancient Rome.