Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’

Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’ by jaclaz on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:06PM (#14930611)

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).

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Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’ by pm90 on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:11PM (#14930643)

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.

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Re:Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’ by jaclaz on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:28PM (#14930779)

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_citizenship

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