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May 01, 2024
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T3 4040 - Reconstructing Roman Slavery
What was it like to be a slave in the Roman world? No first hand account describing slavery which was written by a slave has survived. To understand what a slave’s life was like we are forced to reconstruct slavery from the materials that do survive. These include: descriptions of slavery and slaves by the slave owners; literature which features characters who are slaves; archaeological remains which illustrate the conditions of slavery. An important concern will be the special demands made in the reading and interpretation of texts that are over two-thousand years old. Finally, the experience of African-American slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, a period more richly documented than the Roman, helps us to imagine much more about the Roman institution than what we could infer from the ancient sources alone.
Requisites: 8 Hours in (AAS or ANTH or CLAS or HIST) and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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