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People. Class Structure. FREEBORN or NON-FREEBORN Freeborn= Patricians and Plebeians Non-Freeborn= Slaves and Freedpersons. Patricians ( Patres). Patrician Privileges. Important religious offices No corporal punishment if convicted of crime

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  1. People

  2. Class Structure FREEBORN or NON-FREEBORN Freeborn= Patricians and Plebeians Non-Freeborn= Slaves and Freedpersons

  3. Patricians ( Patres)

  4. Patrician Privileges Important religious offices No corporal punishment if convicted of crime In charge of all civil and criminal law

  5. Patricians (Careers) Politics--Senate ( once- admitted = member for life) not allowed to engage in business Pompeii- local offices

  6. Source of wealth= land

  7. Plebeians (rest of freeborn)

  8. Plebeians During Republic-agitated for rights. Could be elected to government but usually not wealthy enough to run for office

  9. Slavery Property not persons No rights No marriage or recognized family

  10. Slaves Sources Inhabitants of towns or cities captured in war Rebels Peoples captured by pirates or kidnappers Children exposed by their families Children sold by their families Children of slaves

  11. Slavery

  12. Household slaves

  13. Freedmen and women Reasons for Manumission Business ( unrestricted travel) Voting Generosity ( real or for show) Work incentive Marriage Adoption Court appearance Age and illness

  14. Names Praenomen Nomen Cognomen Marcus Holconius Rufus

  15. Holconia Titus Terentius Felix Holconia Terentii

  16. Slaves and Freedpersons Andros the slave of Marcus Holconius Rufus Freed becomes Marcus Holconius Andros

  17. Rights(or lack thereof) Freedpersons Vote ( can’t run for office) Cannot be enrolled in senatorial or equestrian orders no matter how wealthy Augustales – priests of imperial cult Children of freedpersons= freeborn

  18. Patricians Marcus Tullius builds Temple of Augustan Fortune

  19. Freedmen Numerius Popidius Ampliatus Freedman of the Popidius family Freeborn members include: Vibius Popidius and Lucius Popidius Secundus

  20. Numerius Popidus Ampliatus son of Numerius paid for the temple of Isis to be rebuilt…..To repay his generosity the town council accepted him into their order free of charge, although he was only six years old.

  21. Tomb of the Flavii

  22. Eumachia Eumachia daughter of Lucius Eumachius and wife of Marcus Numistrius Fronto Public priestess

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