Too bad it was to be a slave in Pompeii?
 

Yesterday, 12/14/2010 at 21 o'clock (GMT) was broadcast (BBC-2) dok.filma: "Pompeii: The Life and Death in the Roman city, the author of Cambridge professor Mary Beard, who examined 30 years of life of the inhabitants of Pompeii before the disaster ( volcanic eruption in 79 AD. er.).
After analyzing the results of modern forensic well-preserved skeletons of 54, she shares her findings and theories.
I found it interesting
"It's not that simple"
Despite the fact that the society was masculine (male), women may have * property, slaves and their owners are consumed completely identical (in composition), food - varied methods of its acquisition; slaves could be highly professional, such as doctors, citizens could be artisans ; slaves could have the funds, could become free (and rich), (I am reminded of Socrates (Although a Greek, who had sold themselves into slavery for debt)
In general, property separation between the free, affects more than the difference in status .. Modern forensic techniques as the nature of injuries of bones studied skeletons suggest that patients slaves had long medical care (ie, quite human relation), so it was not all odnaznachno in the city of Pompeii ...
If possible, take a look ... City (12,000 people) are surprisingly preserved ..
Interestingly, there may be experts "in bondage"?
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*- For example, in Victorian England, could not, could only receive royalties for the writer's work, so probably as many good writers ...