Isbn: 9780521083409 - familia caesaris: a social study of the emperor's freedmen and slaves (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Cloth, dj. Some light edge wear to jacket; minor scuffing. Else fine. Internals are bright and clean. The slave and freed slave classes are of the first importance for any study of the social structure of the Roman world in the first and second centuries AD. Among them the emperor's own slaves and freedmen, the Familia Caesaris, deserve special attention: this was the most important in status and the most mobile socially of all the groups in slave-born classes; it also had the greatest continuity of development and the individuals who comprised it can be identified and dated in sufficient numbers for significant statistical comparisons to be made of their family-relationships and occupations. The primary sources for this study are inscriptions - over four thousand of them - mostly sepulchral, brief, stereotyped and undated. One of Professor Weaver's main achievements has been to establish criteria for dating and interpreting this intractable material so that it can yield the social historian reliable statistical information. He shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of the slave and freedman classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket.; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation.; 342 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Dustjacket has edgewear with very light chipping. DJ is price-clipped. Book has light shelfwear else Fine.; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation.; 342 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Light browning to back panel. Foxing to textblock. Former owner's name on ffep.; Shows how the Familia Caesaris differed from other sections of freedmen and slave classes and how even within it there was a considerable degree of social differentiation.; 342 pages.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xii, 330. Blue dust jacket. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 0521083400 Very good indeed in slightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket.