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the booty sellers: sparatacus complex
Human plunder in the kinds of quantities the ancients were accustomed to created problems for an army on the march. It could become completely bogged down. The Sparatacus complex. In 218 B.C. King Philip V of Macedon invaded Elis in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Septimus Severus, Arch of Titus, Cicero, Cicero correspondence with Caesar, Column of Marcus Aurelius, Column of Marcus Aurelius Pantheon Rome, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Island of Delos, King Philip V of Macedon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marius Roman emperor, Slave Trading Roman Empire, Slavery in Roman Empire
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how much is that slave in the window?
As a commodity, slaves created peculiar problems for the merchant. Apparently in the larger cities there were a few shops where slaves could be bought: in Rome in Nero’s time they were concentrated near the temple of Castor in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Capua slave market, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Leon Gerome, Josephus Flavius, Lionel Casson, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman slave markets, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Ancient Rome
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slave: barbarians and barter for the buck
Slavery. A peculiar institution of the Old World. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it; that is, condoned it for war, condoned it for luxury and condoned it for business. But even then, they knew it to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Roman slave trade, ancient slave revolts, Capua gladiator school, Cicero, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Jacques-Louis David, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Marcus Aurelius column Rome, Roman Retiarus gladiator, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire, Sparatacus slave revolt, Spartacus
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contrary to nature: human plunder
” … in good health as required by ordinance, not subject to any legal charge, neither a wanderer or a fugitive, free from the sacred disease ( leprosy).” The seller guaranteed all this under oath to the gods Hermes and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Caesar conquers Alesia, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Jewish Revolt 70 A.D., Josephus the Jewish War, Julius Caesar slave trade, Justinian Roman emperor, King Philip II of Macedon, King Philip V of Macedon, Michael A. Hoffman, occupy wall street, Oscar Handlin, Polybius historian, Roman General Marius, Slavery in the Roman Emperor, Steven Friesen, Ulrich B. Phillips, Walter Schiedel
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