..., and of main- taining a degree of detachment between his voice and its pronouncements. KEYWORDS: Martial, epigram, money, commodity, aesthetics, materiality, fungibility, slavery, abstraction, coins Addixti servum nummis here mille ducentis, ut bene cenares, Calliodore, semel. nec bene cenasti: mullus tibi...

...Joshua Benjamins Across his corpus, Augustine strikingly and recurrently deploys the three cognate metaphors of slavery to sin, redemption from sin, and slavery to God. I argue that Augustine’s use of these theological metaphors is thoroughly contoured by the legal and social strictures governing...

... letters from the region dating between c. 550 and 450 BCE, I contrast the travels of enslaved persons recorded in the documents with stylized descriptions found in literary accounts. This article finds that slaves took a variety of routes into—and out of—slavery, and that fear of enslavement was widely...

... of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2017 slavery Roman Republic religion Plautus Cato...