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17 de may. de 2024 · Third Servile War, (73–71 bce) slave rebellion against Rome led by the gladiator Spartacus. Who was Spartacus? Overview of Spartacus's life, including a discussion of the Gladiatorial War.
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Hace 6 días · In 2009, the Special Court for Sierra Leone's (SCSL) Appeals Chamber found the abduction and confinement of women for "forced marriage" in war to be a new crime against humanity (AFRC decision). [10] [11] The SCSL Trial Chamber in the Charles Taylor decision found that the term 'forced marriage' should be avoided and rather described the practice in war as 'conjugal slavery' (2012).
Hace 2 días · The slave trade, lightly taxed and regulated, flourished in all reaches of the Roman Empire and across borders. In antiquity, slavery was seen as the political consequence of one group dominating another, and people of any race, ethnicity, or place of origin might become slaves, including freeborn Romans.
Hace 3 días · This oppression by an elite minority eventually led to slave revolts (see Roman Servile Wars); the Third Servile War was led by Spartacus. By the late Republican era, slavery had become an economic pillar of Roman wealth, as well as Roman society.
Hace 5 días · Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. In 66–67 Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at Athens under the philosopher Ammonius. Public duties later took him several times to Rome, where he lectured on philosophy, made many friends, and perhaps enjoyed the acquaintance of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
- Plutarch was a Greek biographer and author born in the 1st century CE whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, an...
- Plutarch’s popularity rests primarily on his Parallel Lives, biographies of Greek and Roman heroes in pairs, chosen for their similarity of charact...
- Plutarch was a prolific writer who produced over 200 works, not all of which survived antiquity. Besides the Parallel Lives, the Moralia (or Ethica...
- Plutarch held the chief magistracy and other municipal posts in Chaeronea and directed a school there with a focus on philosophy, especially ethics...
Roman slaves did resist slavery, most notably in some of the famous large scale slave rebellions (Spartacus and the third servile war being the most famous).
1 de may. de 2024 · A great many Roman enslaved people were set to work in menial and manual jobs – including agriculture, mining and construction. As historian Philip Matyszak explains, these types of jobs could be particularly brutal. “Being sent to the mines was a drawn-out death sentence,” he says “They worked in very dangerous, very unhealthy ...
