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Introduction: intellectual pursuits and the (formerly) enslaved
Licinius the flute player and Gaius Gracchus the orator
In the households of Cato the censor and Atticus the businessman
The homegrown and the immigrant : Quintus Lutatius Daphnis the freedman and Archias of Antioch the Greek poet
Multitaskers : Aurelius Opillus and Lucius Cornelius Epicadus
Foundlings : a genial "miser" and a librarian who collected old jokes
Intellectual prisoners captured in war : two tyrants, a literary scholar, and a fierce critic
Conclusion: glimpses of educated men who had been enslaved.
Licinius the flute player and Gaius Gracchus the orator
In the households of Cato the censor and Atticus the businessman
The homegrown and the immigrant : Quintus Lutatius Daphnis the freedman and Archias of Antioch the Greek poet
Multitaskers : Aurelius Opillus and Lucius Cornelius Epicadus
Foundlings : a genial "miser" and a librarian who collected old jokes
Intellectual prisoners captured in war : two tyrants, a literary scholar, and a fierce critic
Conclusion: glimpses of educated men who had been enslaved.