دانلود کتاب The Material Life of Roman Slaves

The Material Life of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates
on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regard slaves as irretrievable in
the ruins of ancient Roman cities and villas, the book takes the archaeological
record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves’ lives and experiences.
Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, the book searches for ways to
see slaves in these various contexts – to make them visible where texts tell us they
were in fact present. Part of this project involves understanding how slaves are
often actively, if unwittingly, left out of guidebooks and scholarly literature.
Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and
between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations –
urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.