To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Freedmen occupied a place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and full ...

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Roman owners freed their slaves in considerable numbers: some freed them outright, while others allowed them to buy their own freedom. The prospect of possible freedom through manumission ...

Roman society also involved a system of patronage. Members of the upper classes – the patroni – offered protection to freedmen or plebeians, who became their "cliens." Patronage might consist ...