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

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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. …

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…or the two sourcebooks and why, it also just plainly comparing the two Question 2 is on marriage and the role of womans rights, proterty, affection, ect. Both are unbiased information All quotations, are as follows RW: The Roman World by David Cherry WR: The World of Rome by Jones and Sidwell Adelphoe: a play from the book Five Comedies; plautus and Terence(original authors in ancient rome) and translated by Deena Berg and Douglass Parker