Roman Society Flashcards
1
Q
What did a Patron do?
A
- Give client financial support
- sometimes give client food
- provide a business opportunity for client
- sometimes invite clients to dinner
2
Q
What did a Client do?
A
- poor
- appear everyday at Patron’s house at dawn
- accompany patron to baths or forum
- in the city-acted as patron’s supporters
- vote for patron if he ran for political office
- give political support
3
Q
Who was a Patron?
A
Wealthy
e.g senator or a merchant to shopkeeper
4
Q
Who was a Client?
A
Poor
e.g local shopkeepers, builders, clerks, farmer, or a merchant to a senator
5
Q
Who were slaves? How did you become a slave?
A
- Born into it
- Stolen/kidnapped/ •captured
- Abandoned
- Punished for a crime
- prisoner of war
- home bred (children of slaves)
6
Q
How were slaves bought?
A
•traded
• slave markets
-Place to buy slaves -Exhibited naked
-Had placards round necks with nationality, skills and defects
-Price varied- more valuable of craftsman, educated or attractive
7
Q
How were slaves treated?
A
- Law allowed masters to sell, hire out, breed l, punish, torture, multilate, ad kill slaves
- belonged to master
- considered as nothing
- earnings belonged to master (sometimes allowed to keep peculium and save up for their freedom)
- some treated well-allowed property, wife and children, more food, allowed to graze own cattle on the estate.
- work in mines and quarries was a death sentence-usuallly criminals job
8
Q
What were the advantages of being set free from slavery?
A
- Children have full rights of citizenship
- classified as a citizen
- could become Augustales(Roman public office, made up of freedmen, repaired buildings, erect statues, pay for games, religious duties)
- provided with felt cap to symbolise freedom.
9
Q
What were the disadvantages of being set free from slavery?
A
- not allowed to run for public office
- not allowed to become a member of senetorial /equestrian classes
- often still worked for master
