Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
by jaclaz on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:06PM
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Of course the luxury homes were for an elite, but forget about the "average" Roman being a slave, by definition a Roman was NOT a slave (and a slave by definition not a Roman), actually the Romans were the first to "invent" the figure of the "liberto" (freedman in English):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman
that - once freed - became a citizen (with some very marginal restrictions).
Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
by pm90 on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:11PM
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I think you're being a little too pedantic. When I said Roman, I meant a person living in the city of Ancient Rome. I deliberately avoided the use of the term citizen.
Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
by jaclaz on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:28PM
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Sorry, if I seemed so, but one of the essential and novel parts of the political organization of Ancient Rome was the "dignity" of citizenship, that was given (with different degrees) to almost everyone, including conquered people:
Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
by thinkingemote on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:09PM
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Using a US analogy I think the right one would be a Plantation owners house.
Average Romans were probably slaves and, not sure, but probably lived in shanties that definitely don't exist.
The mosaics and stuff that survives today is likely the home of an elite, or some important Government building. So the right comparison would be to, say, Empire State Building.