What was the women slaves rule in roman time? (colosseum)?

Question

on roman time meaning not now

on the time colosseum games was goin on.

and the question is dat

wat did the woman slaves do on dat time

what activities did they made them do

or was their role?

also how they were treate and their life style

Answer 1

Women sat on the top rows, this would included slave women.

Answer 2

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit and it all depended of the social status of the woman or her husband.

Women, in general, in the Roman Empire before the 1st century AD had no status what so ever and female slaves even less. In the Colosseum the women could stand at the top, even the male slaves had better seats.

Female slaves were common and filled a huge variety of roles, from ladies’ maids to farm workers, and even gladiators. The identity and experience of a Roman slave varied depending on the period of Roman history in which she lived, her place of birth, and the tasks to which she was assigned. Moreover, her experience of life depended largely on the personality of those that owned and/or supervised her.

I am not sure about how you want to put the Colosseum in here, but by the time of Nero, there were even female gladiators in Rome.  Of course, the growing popularity of the spectacles probably demonstrated a need for a large, permanent theater, and construction of the Colosseum began under the emperor Vespasian (r. 69-79 A.D.)

Answer 3

Huh?  are you asking about ROLE of the female slave in Roman times?

Or what she might do if she was put in the colosseum?

For the first, childcare, cleaning, food prep, cooking, gardening, cothing care, all the stuff women do..

For the second  Lion food? if she was Christian.  Unless of course she was a equestrinne..(rider) then she might take part in races.

Answer 4

Female slaves could be employed in a variety of occupations. They could be spinners, weavers, clothesmakers, menders, wetnurses, children's nurses, kitchen help, and general domestics.  Female slaves were given special training in the wealthy Roman households and worked as clerks, secretaries, ladies' maids, clothes folders, hairdressers, haircutters, mirror holders, masseuses, readers, entertainers, midwives, and infirmary attendants.  Children born into slavery in a wealthy Roman household thus stood a fair chance of receiving some education.

Some female slaves, like males' were employed as attendants to enhance the splendour of the mistress's entourage when she went out of her home.  Such slaves would clear the way before their owners.  A slave might carry a parasol for a mistress who was taking a walk.  Naturally, slaves functions ona farm or country estate would have differed from those in the urban household, but less is known about rural slave women.  However, Cato the Censor does list the duties of teh vilica, the chief housekeeper, a slave woman who held a supervisory postion of great responsibility, subordinate to a steward who was a male slave.

Women were always employable for sexual purposes, either in addition to their other domestic responsibilities, or as a primary occupation.  The master had access to all his slave women.  Slave women were also available for sexual relations with the male slaves in the house, with the master's permission.  Cato, who was always interested in financial gain, charged his male slaves a fixed fee for intercourse with his female slaves.

Employment in the s*x trade broguth great profit to the owners of female slaves.  Women worked as prostitutes in brothels or in inns or baths open to the public.  In the same category, but at a higher level, were the women trained to work as actresses and entertainers of all types.  Actresses sometimes appeared nude and performed sexual acts on stage.  However, actresses were not invariably employed sexually.

The fact of slavery disqualified a person from entering into a forma Roman marriage, but two slaves might have an informal maritl arrangement known as "cohabitation".  It was in the master's interest to promote family life among his slaves, for it improved morale and produced slave children who were the master's to keep in his household or to dispose of as he wished.    There was no security in slave marriage - either partner or the children might be sold to another owner or moved to a different property owned by the original master.  But sepulchral inscriptions show that many slave marriages survived over long periods of time, regardless of changes in habitation or change in status from slave to freed of one or both of the partners.

Slaves were allowed to amass their own personal savings (peculium) and could use this money to buy other slaves.  When a male slave purchased his wife she had the staus of a personal slave (vicaria) to her husband-owner - and the disaster of being sold to seperate households was less likely.  The arrangement also offered a path of upward mobility for the slave husband, since his master might free the slave's wife sooner than a valuable and industrious male slave.

The minium age for manumission was thirty, according to the Lex Aleia Sentia of AD 4, but many slaves attained manumission earlier.  Females were likely to be manumitted earlier than males for a variety of reasons, consistent with the state's policy of encouraging marriage the law allowed a master to manumit a slave in order to marry her.  Marriage to women of slave or freed status was perfectly acceptable among the lower classes.  But such alliances were cause for censure among the wealthy classes, and according to Augustan legislation, men of senatorial rank were not allowed to marry freedwomen at all.  Similarly, women of senatorial rank were prohibited from marrying freedmen.

Females could win their freedom through routes other than marriage.  They could save up and buy their freedom.  In addition, Columella, who in the first century AD wrote a treatise on farming, considered that a slave woman had repaid her purchase price by bearing four children to be her master's property.  Freedom was often granted to slaves voluntarily by owners, or by last testement.

Answer 5

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