Slavery In Ancient Rome Essay

Rome, Italy’s capital, is a stretched, city with nearly 3,000 years of influential art, architecture and culture written to share to the world. Ancient Rome was one of the most advanced societies in its time.  Ancient Roman culture lasted a long time in the history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. ancient Rome was a joint of the city of Rome which a lot of the activity’s happen. Ancient Rome is known for the prominent Colosseum which is the largest amphitheater ever built.  , the , and the Pantheon.The Roman Pantheon is the most maintained and dominant buildings of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of ancient Rome. The city also had many other theaters, gymnasiums, and many taverns. most of the population in Rome lived in

the city center, usually in tight apartment blocks. The city of Rome was the largest megalopolis in the period of history, Ancient Rome population most likely surpassed one million people, even some scientist give out high end estimate of 3.5 million and a low end estimate of 450,000. the topic I would want to talk about is number 4 Discuss key elements and persons associated with any three of the following areas of Roman culture: literature, art, law, the family or slavery. I find this topic interesting because the subject is broad and fascinating to research and understand they way people were treated or cultures where thought of at that time in history. This topic stood out to me the most the main 3 key areas I will be talking about is roman slavery, Roman family, & Roman Art.
I relied on 80% of my notes throughout my essay from quizzes, chapter discussions, and reading through roman chapter there were good information in section 5 that helped me have a broad idea of my subjects I wanted to say, such as facts and scenarios.
Slavery is The order in which one being is possessed as property by another, and is under the owner's jurisdiction, especially in involuntary servitude.

Slavery in ancient Rome had a huge toll to society and was very important to the economy. Many unskilled slaves did a lot of old fashion manual labor for there masters, also slaves performed and did a lot of household work, and possibly hired at particular expert jobs and professions. Teachers were often slaves. Most distinct Greek slaves were to be expected as highly educated. Unskilled slaves / uneducated slaves, or people who were convicted of crime most of the time slavery could be used as punishment, these people worked on farms, in mines, and at mills. Their living conditions were heartless, very tight, had no right to do anything , and most of time lives short. In rome slaves were property such as a house is to a person in the beginning slaves had no rights to say or do anything over time slaves slowly were given rights and little freedom this happened overtime. This was sadly accepted as part of life in ancient Rome by the slaves themselves and by the society. Little to no credit had been given to the important contributions to the economy and

society
One of the most important thing Romans had was the bonding with there family, family life was very tight. In there society Family’s lived all together under one roof weather it was an apartment near the city of house. Even the unmarried sons and daughters & even married sons & wive had to live under one roof, while the marred daughters lived with there husbands family under one roof. The family structure was based on the paterfamilias where the older men were the rulers of the family, the oldest was the head of the house. The oldest tought the younger men schooling subjects such as academics. The roles that came with being the head of the family isthat your family’s consequences came back to you and you have to pay the price. Even the the ruler of the family had to respect is family if not society will shun the ruler. Women had very little say or any rights in the family’s there roles in the family was to supervise the children and teach there daughters.

Roman art was a huge part of ancient roman culture,was a common widely form of entertainment looked at, and admired by Romans. Roman art was associated with kings and the republic of 509 bc. Roman art was in various forms such as paintings, sculptures and architecture.