BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works Cited

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Saller, Richard. “Slavery and the Roman Family.” Slavery & Abolition 8, no. 1 (May 1987): 65–87. doi:10.1080/01440398708574927.

            Slavery and the Roman Family talks about the important role slaves played in the composition and daily activities of the roman family.

Bradley, Keith. “Roman Slavery: Retrospect and Prospect.” Canadian Journal of History 43, no. 3 (Winter 2008): 477–500. doi:10.3138/cjh.43.3.477.

            Keith Bradley expands on the concept of Slavery in ancient rome by mentioning the philosophical intentions behind it.

Hunt, Peter. “Brent D. Shaw. Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents.” American Historical Review 124, no. 4 (October 2019): 1381–83. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz833.

            A brief overview of the servile wars and Spartacus with primary sources.

BEEK, AARON L. “The Pirate Connection: Roman Politics, Servile Wars, and the East.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 146, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 99–116. https://searchebscohostcom.eznvcc.vccs.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=120826399&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

            Aaron L. Beek’s Acadmeic journal digs deeper into what caused the servile wars.

Gregory S. Aldrete. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia : Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. The Greenwood Press “Daily Life Through History” Series. Westport, Conn: Greenwood,2004. https://searchebscohostcom.eznvcc.vccs.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=299939&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

            Aldrete expands on the daily functioning of a roman in major roman cities such as Pompeii

Plutarch, and Bernadotte Perrin. 1967. Plutarch's Lives. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

            Plutarch’s section on Crassus in his work “Plutarch’s Lives” talks about the life of Marcus Crassus and gives a primary account of the role of Spartacus in the Servile wars

Appianus, and Horace White. 1958. Appian's Roman history. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

            Appian proves comprehensive description of Roman history and the Civil wars that took place. For the case of my project, I shall be focusing on the civil wars section of his work, which is compremised of books 13-17 of the total 24 which make up his Roman History.

Gaius, Edward Poste, E. A. Whittuck, A. H. J. Greenidge, and Francis De Zulueta. 1904. Gai Institutiones, or, Institutes of Roman law. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

            Gaius lists the multiple Roman Laws including the ones which governed the lives of slaves in the Roman empire.

Davis, William Stearns, and Willis M. West. 1912. Readings in ancient history: illustrative extracts from the sources. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

            A Collection made by William Stearns Davis which has the written descriptions on the lives of slaves by Playwright Plautus and Cato the elder.

Florus, Lucius Annaeus, E. S. Forster, John Carew Rolfe, and Cornelius Nepos. 1960. Lucius Annaeus Florus. Epitome of Roman history. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.

            Florus provides us with another account of the events surrounding Spartacus and also a general History of Roman wars till the time of Augustus.