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It worked quite well for both a Roman slave and the last, great Roman emperor, why not everyone else in between?
by jkmcf 4y ago
It worked quite well for both a Roman slave and the last, great Roman emperor, why not everyone else in between?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoEpictetus? He gained his freedom before he began teaching iirc. And was influential and tremendously respected even before that. The contours of roman slavery are complex and I'm not fully informed on them but my understanding is that he would have spent much of his life closer to an emperor in status than to the chattel slavery that modern people are likely to imagine.