Ulrike Roth is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her chief research interest lies in the study of Roman slavery. She is the author of Thinking Tools. Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models (2007), and multiple articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of slavery from the ancient to the early medieval world. She is also the series editor of EUP’s Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery. Beyond slavery, she has researched and published on aspects of Roman republican history, Roman historiography as well as Italic and Latin epigraphy.

In realizing their innovative mandate to foreground enslaved children in Roman antiquity, the book's authors reveal a deep commitment to reconstructing their overlooked lives through scrupulous research and with humane respect.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Child slavery in/and the Roman EmpireUlrike Roth1. Children of war and their capture for the slave trade in Roman images of conflictMaureen Carroll2. The enslavement of children in early Christian literature: rhetoric, social ethics, and the complexities of historiographyChris de Wet 3. Differential equations: slavery, childhood and gender in the Latin literary imaginationCarla Rubiera Cancelas4. Alterity, enslavement, and empire in a Roman genre sculpture: the Oplontis-Borghese boy with a duckSarah Beckmann5. Experience and enslavement of a child in Late Roman Egypt: Prokla, her family, and her two mastersVille Vuolanto 6. Threptoi, children and slavery in the sanctuaries of Greece and Asia MinorJudith Evans-Grubbs7. Roman without being Roman? Child slavery in Hispania seen through Latin epitaphsSílvia Teixeira 8. Between slavery and freedom: the funerary iconography of enslaved children in their familiesLuca Scalco 9. Nepticulae dulcissimae: commemorating genealogical hope in Roman slaveryUlrike Roth10. Young and free(d): Roman child libertae in the epigraphic evidenceTatjana SandonConclusion: Locating enslaved childhoods in the Roman imperial worldUlrike RothBibliographyGeneral Index

Ulrike Roth is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her chief research interest lies in the study of Roman slavery. She is the author of Thinking Tools. Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models (2007), and multiple articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of slavery from the ancient to the early medieval world. She is also the series editor of EUP’s Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery. Beyond slavery, she has researched and published on aspects of Roman republican history, Roman historiography as well as Italic and Latin epigraphy.

In realizing their innovative mandate to foreground enslaved children in Roman antiquity, the book's authors reveal a deep commitment to reconstructing their overlooked lives through scrupulous research and with humane respect.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Child slavery in/and the Roman EmpireUlrike Roth1. Children of war and their capture for the slave trade in Roman images of conflictMaureen Carroll2. The enslavement of children in early Christian literature: rhetoric, social ethics, and the complexities of historiographyChris de Wet 3. Differential equations: slavery, childhood and gender in the Latin literary imaginationCarla Rubiera Cancelas4. Alterity, enslavement, and empire in a Roman genre sculpture: the Oplontis-Borghese boy with a duckSarah Beckmann5. Experience and enslavement of a child in Late Roman Egypt: Prokla, her family, and her two mastersVille Vuolanto 6. Threptoi, children and slavery in the sanctuaries of Greece and Asia MinorJudith Evans-Grubbs7. Roman without being Roman? Child slavery in Hispania seen through Latin epitaphsSílvia Teixeira 8. Between slavery and freedom: the funerary iconography of enslaved children in their familiesLuca Scalco 9. Nepticulae dulcissimae: commemorating genealogical hope in Roman slaveryUlrike Roth10. Young and free(d): Roman child libertae in the epigraphic evidenceTatjana SandonConclusion: Locating enslaved childhoods in the Roman imperial worldUlrike RothBibliographyGeneral Index

Ulrike Roth is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her chief research interest lies in the study of Roman slavery. She is the author of Thinking Tools. Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models (2007), and multiple articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of slavery from the ancient to the early medieval world. She is also the series editor of EUP’s Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery. Beyond slavery, she has researched and published on aspects of Roman republican history, Roman historiography as well as Italic and Latin epigraphy.

In realizing their innovative mandate to foreground enslaved children in Roman antiquity, the book's authors reveal a deep commitment to reconstructing their overlooked lives through scrupulous research and with humane respect.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Child slavery in/and the Roman EmpireUlrike Roth1. Children of war and their capture for the slave trade in Roman images of conflictMaureen Carroll2. The enslavement of children in early Christian literature: rhetoric, social ethics, and the complexities of historiographyChris de Wet 3. Differential equations: slavery, childhood and gender in the Latin literary imaginationCarla Rubiera Cancelas4. Alterity, enslavement, and empire in a Roman genre sculpture: the Oplontis-Borghese boy with a duckSarah Beckmann5. Experience and enslavement of a child in Late Roman Egypt: Prokla, her family, and her two mastersVille Vuolanto 6. Threptoi, children and slavery in the sanctuaries of Greece and Asia MinorJudith Evans-Grubbs7. Roman without being Roman? Child slavery in Hispania seen through Latin epitaphsSílvia Teixeira 8. Between slavery and freedom: the funerary iconography of enslaved children in their familiesLuca Scalco 9. Nepticulae dulcissimae: commemorating genealogical hope in Roman slaveryUlrike Roth10. Young and free(d): Roman child libertae in the epigraphic evidenceTatjana SandonConclusion: Locating enslaved childhoods in the Roman imperial worldUlrike RothBibliographyGeneral Index