Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Child slavery in/and the Roman Empire Ulrike Roth 1. Children of war and their capture for the slave trade in Roman images of conflict Maureen Carroll 2. The enslavement of children in early Christian literature: rhetoric, social ethics, and the complexities of historiography Chris de Wet 3. Differential equations: slavery, childhood and gender in the Latin literary imagination Carla Rubiera Cancelas 4. Alterity, enslavement, and empire in a Roman genre sculpture: the Oplontis-Borghese boy with a duck Sarah Beckmann 5. Experience and enslavement of a child in Late Roman Egypt: Prokla, her family, and her two masters Ville Vuolanto 6. Threptoi , children and slavery in the sanctuaries of Greece and Asia Minor Judith Evans-Grubbs 7. Roman without being Roman? Child slavery in Hispania seen through Latin epitaphs Sílvia Teixeira 8.

Between slavery and freedom: the funerary iconography of enslaved children in their families Luca Scalco 9. Nepticulae dulcissimae : commemorating genealogical hope in Roman slavery Ulrike Roth 10. Young and free(d): Roman child libertae in the epigraphic evidence Tatjana Sandon Conclusion: Locating enslaved childhoods in the Roman imperial world Ulrike Roth Bibliography General Index.