Being a Roman Citizen

<p>The status of citizen was increasingly the right of the majority in the Roman empire and brought important privileges and exemption from certain forms of punishment. However not all Roman citizens were equal; for example bastards freed persons women the physically and mentally handicapped under-25s ex-criminals and soldiers were subject to restrictions and curtailments on their capacity to act. <em>Being a Roman Citizen</em> examines these forms of limitation and discrimination and thereby throws into sharper focus Roman conceptions of citizenship and society.</p>