We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on how drastically ... patrician class and the non-noble plebeians. The two groups may have sometimes ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and ... work in the same jobs as plebeians – as craftsmen, midwives or traders. Some even became wealthy. However, Rome’s rigid society attached ...

Most of the burials belong to lower-class Romans, with tombstones identifying “freedmen of Italian origin, plebeians or commoners ... common ornaments in ancient Rome. “Phallic emblems are ...

The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ... classes – the patroni – offered protection to freedmen or plebeians, who became their "cliens." Patronage might consist of ...

The majority of the population were known as plebeians and they had to work ... They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to be property. They did a wide variety of work ...

In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes ...

They and their families became known as the patricians (aristocratic class), while the rest of Rome’s free population were ...

Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - a city that happens to be Ancient Rome. Rome is ...