Eight programmes on the background of the Roman world
6: Work and Slavery by M. K. HOPKINS
Lecturer in Sociology in the London School of Economics
The splendour of Rome that has survived was mostly the product of its urban culture, but the Romans' chief source of income and principal occupation was agriculture; while slavery was seen as an efficient method of mobilising labour in a period of rapid expansion and political Change.
With readings by DENIS GOACHER
Produced by Adrian Johnson
Second broadcast
Robert Coleman on Vergil and the Latin Literary Tradition: Sept. 25
A reading list can be obtained by sending a stamped addressed foolscap envelope to The Romans. [address removed]