ebooks Voices of the Ancients by S. B. Shaffer in History

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The sly; subversive; first-person; and uncompromising guide to the realities of slavery and servitude in ancient Rome; with a foreword by Mary Beard. Having spent most of his life managing his servants―many of them prisoners from Rome’s military conquests―he decided to write a kind of owner’s manual for his friends and countrymen. The result; The Roman Guide to Slave Management; is a sly; subversive guide to the realities of servitude in ancient Rome. Cambridge scholar Jerry Toner uses Falx; his fictional but true-to-life creation; to describe where and how to Romans bought slaves; how they could tell an obedient worker from a troublemaker; and even how the ruling class reacted to the inevitable slave revolts. Toner also adds commentary throughout; analyzing the callous words and casual brutality of Falx and his compatriots and putting it all in context for the modern reader. Written with a deep knowledge of ancient culture―and the depths of its cruelty―this is the Roman Empire as you’ve never seen it before.