Dispensator: The Social Profile of a Servile Profession in the Satyrica and in Roman Jurists’ Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction V
3. Contents VII
4. Without Rights? Social Theories Meet Roman Law Texts 1
5. Filii naturales: Social Fate or Legal Privilege? 25
6. Social Status ‘Without’ Legal Difference. Historiography and Puzzling Legal Questions About Imperial Freedmen and Slaves 67
7. Peculium: Paradoxes of Slaves With Property 87
8. Dispensator: The Social Profile of a Servile Profession in the Satyrica and in Roman Jurists’ Texts 125
9. Giving and Taking: The Effects of Roman Inheritance Law on the Social Position of Slaves 165
10. Servi poenae: What Did It Mean to Be ‘Condemned to Slavery’? 187
11. Favor libertatis: Slaveholders as Freedom Fighters 203
12. Neither Fish nor Fowl: Some Grey Areas of Roman Slave Law 237
13. Bibliography 269
14. Authors 297
15. Index of Sources 299