Caring
Abstract
Reviewing evidence from suburban workers’ cemeteries in Rome, tombstones of gladiators in Roman Gaul, and pottery from Roman York, this chapter asks what care for certain people and bodies reveals about what people living precariously cared about . Whereas most studies that chart non-elite social worlds in the Roman empire have highlighted the vertical relations of patronage or have reproduced the normative frameworks of family and work, this chapter traces alternative, horizontal social formations emerging from lives lived in precarity.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Classical Antiquity Studies
Historical and Literary Studies
Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 216–254
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter