CLAS 21405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sestertius, Equites, Roman Citizenship
11 Sep 2017
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In some cases, this decision would be made while the master was alive. At other times, he would make the decision in his will. It seems to have been quite common to free all of one"s slaves in one"s will: they would spend the rest of their life as a freedman or freedwoman. At the highest level, the aristocracy of rome served as senators. The senate was the executive, legislative, and judicial body of the roman state. Roman emperors were derived from the senate class: senators and equestrians were closely connected with the central administration in. The rich, who served in the local governments of the towns and cities of the empire were called municipal aristocrats: municipal aristocrats did indeed frequently leave their hometowns to serve their government as equestrian administrators. The poor were by far the most numerous class in ancient rome: there were two types of farmers - independent and dependent.
