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Slaves didn't have time to write books.
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
Slaves didn't have time to write books.
- Archelaos 4y agoTypically true, but we know of a few prominent freedmen from the ancient world that wrote books: Aesop and his translator Phadrus, Epictetus, Phaedo of Elis and Marcus Tullius Tiro, the secretary of Cicero.
- zozbot234 4y agoAIUI, Epictetus also discusses the matter quite directly and is under no illusion about his relative "downtrodden" status, so the contrary remark found in the textbook looks like naïve, groundless speculation. Slaves may have been personally "lively" and had complex stories - Epictetus certainly did - but this is a different matter altogether.