The Role of Marriage in Ancient Rome and Slavery in Ancient Rome

Question 1: I will begin with a quote from The World of Rome**, "Rome was where the people brokers lived" (172). Slavery was centered in the heart of Rome because slaves were such a precious commodity and much of the surrounding countries trading went on there. The depictions of slaves and their lives from the play "Adelphoe" and passages from both WR and RW are all very different from each other. Some are more believable then others. First off, who were the slaves in Rome and the surrounding Italy? The account in RW suggests that some were Syrian, "a house-hold slave who was a Syria…