Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions

by Sandra R. Joshel and William Bright

Book Overview

In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of community, a way to reframe the conditions of legal status, an assertion of activity against upper-class passivity, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080612444X
• ISBN13: 9780806124445
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"