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Marguerite Garrido-Hory, « L’espace domestique chez Martial, Juvénal et Pétrone », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.t6lplj
The slavery space is both private and public, being always a working place that reflects the level of exploitation of the dependents, as well as their limitations. It is the perfect symbol of the evolution not to say the revolution of a highly hierarchical Roman society, fluctuating between integration and repression, resistance and acceptance. Three writers, Martial, Juvenal and Petronius, all very much involved in politics although in different ways, give us a pertinent look over slavery space.