Familia Caesaris: A Social Study of the Emperor's Freedmen and Slaves

Abstract

Part I. Nomenclature and Chronology: 1. Dated inscriptions 2. Nomina and praenomina 3. Status indication 4. Cognomina and agnomina Part II. The Family Circle: 5. Age at manumission 6. Age at marriage 7. Status of wives 8. Status of children 9. The Senatusconsultum Claudianum and the Familia Caesaris 10. Women in the Familia Caesaris 11. The marriage pattern of slaves and freedmen outside the Familia Caesaris Part III. The Emperor's Service: 12. Vicars 13. Liberti serous and liberti libertus 14. 'Vicariani' 15. The occupational hierarchy: some points of method 16. Sub-clerical grades 17. Adiutores: junior clerical grades 18. Intermediate clerical grades 19. Senior clerical grades 20. Senior administrative grades: a rationibus, ab epistulis, etc. 21. Freedman procurators 22. Imperial freedmen and equestrian status: the father of Claudius Etruscus.