Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination

Explores slavery in Roman literature, and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and wer... » 

Explores slavery in Roman literature, and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. Witnesses to their owners' unguarded moments, their knowledge was the object of both curiosity and anxiety. «