Books by Sandra R. Joshel

What was daily life like for a working man or woman in the Roman Empire? This text examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities.

This is the first book to critically explore how slaveholding and the subordination of women shaped ancient societies and how women and slaves intersected with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities.