Putting a Face to Captivity in War in the Ancient Roman World

February 3, 2021, 10:00 am to 10:00 am

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Thousands of people were trafficked as a result of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean (c. 300 BCE - 100 CE). These individuals are mostly recorded in ancient sources in numerical form alone—as tallies of prisoners taken after the sack of a city or the coin generated from their sale on the slave market. In this talk I will present my efforts to uncover the personal histories of the people taken as captives and the ways in which these histories shaped their experience of captivity. 
Kat Huemoeller is Assistant Professor of Roman History at the University of British Columbia.

Image: A soldier leads away bound captives, Marble relief, Izmir c. 200 CE. Photo by Jun under CC BY-SA 2.0 

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