Men, Women, Freedmen and Slaves: Social Structure and Daily Life

What this note covers

1. The legal grid: citizens, freedmen and the enslaved
2. The elite and the machinery of patronage
3. Women: legal limits and visible influence
4. Freedmen and the Augustales: money without rank
5. Slavery: the hardest group to see
6. Housing across the social range
7. Everyday life: food, water, bathing, leisure and health
8. How this topic is examined and what separates a top-band answer

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