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Freedman Courtiers in Civic Life and Administration Outside of Rome During the Principate

2021/2022, TOM 14

Karol Kłodziński

0000-0002-4625-2874

University of Gdańsk, Faculty of History, Department of Ancient History

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08.09.2026

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Humanities

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history

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English

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Abstract

The relationship between ‘secretarial’ and ‘domestic’ freedman courtiers and the external world in the Principate, especially with provincial society and administration is still unclear. I aim to analyze traces of freedman courtiers’ activities outside of Rome and present some ties between the court and local administrations and societies.

Keywords:

aula,familia Caesaris,court,courtiers,imperial freedmen,imperial administration,Principate

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