Over the course of this period, early forms of public welfare were established by Titus and Trajan and, in difficult times, plebeians could ask Roman administrators for help. We know much less ...

The majority of the population were known as plebeians and they had to work to ... that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights ...

SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

Roman society also involved a system of patronage. Members of the upper classes – the patroni – offered protection to freedmen or plebeians, who became their "cliens." Patronage might consist ...

Timothy S. Mayer's and Gunter Grass's The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising leads one to question not whether the stage relates to the world, but whether the world relates to the stage. Grass's play ...