Visões da escravatura na Literatura Latina

Abstract

Starting with the legal context of roman slavery, this study intends to analyse how the Latin literature (technical, theatrical, gallant, satyrical, philosophical, moral, romanesque and epigrammatic) reflects the reality as well as the new laws that were meanwhile created. The perspective how slavery is presented in Latin literature shows a large diversity, depending on the angles that transmit an idea about reality, and angles that, symbolically, repudiate and invert reality itself.