SERVUS – BETWEEN RES PUBLICA AND RES PRIVATA
SERVUS – BETWEEN RES PUBLICA AND RES PRIVATA

Summary/Abstract: Slavery played a major and essential role in Roman society, both public and private. While slavery never completely disappeared from ancient Roman society, its position in the Roman economy shifted at the beginning of the period called Late Antiquity. The economic importance of the slave and his activity as a valuable tool that extends the personality of the master has largely influenced Roman legal science. Object of convention or simple agent in rebus of the master, the slave appears under two very different aspects which translate the evolution of a whole right but also mentalities. Legally in Rome, he does not enjoy any rights, he is an object of law, but it is sometimes placed in the category of homines.

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