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INTRO TO ANCIENT ROME
Outline for
Lecture 13: Slavery (ii)
- Lex Fufia-Canina (2 BCE) limits manumission by will:
- 1-2 owned -- all can be freed
- 3-10 -- half
- 11-30 -- 1/3
- 31-100 -- 1/4
- 101-500 -- 1/5
Rural Slavery
- e.g. latifundia or mines: "slave labor" is the norm
- slaves locked at night in ergastula
- in latifundia, one slave overseer: the vilicus
['steward']
Resistance
- small scale: running way; committing suicide; killing
master
- a few large-scale rebellions
Servile Wars in Sicily
a) 135 BCE
-led by a Syrian slave Eunus and a Cilician named Cleon,
- slave forces reached a size of 60,000 troops
b) 104 BCE
- led by Athenion (a Cilician) and one called Salvius.
Spartacus
- 73-71 BCE
- Spartacus was a gladiator of Thracian origin
- had military experience in the auxiliary forces
- he broke loose from his barracks at Capua, 73 BCE
- followers were primarily rural slaves
- after a string of military victories, defeated in 71
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